Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jezebel (Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent; TIME, March 28).
D. W. Ballard '39, B. F. Bart, Jr. '38, R. S. Bart '40, P. L. Bernstein '40, R. H. Bishop, 3d '38, H. L. Blackwell, Jr. '39, G. F. Bogardus '39, N. H. Brisson '39, J. J. Cabitor '38, E. L. Cherbonnier '39, J. R. Cooke '40, E. B. Crohn...
Her name, Bette (pronounced Betty), was a custom-made diminutive of Elizabeth. Her full name is Ruth Elizabeth, after her mother, Ruth Elizabeth Favor Davis. When Bette was eight her parents were divorced.* Thereafter Bette & Barbara lived with Mrs. Davis, known affectionately as Ruthie.
Thus acclaimed in Cincinnati last week by Tom Shea, poet laureate of the hoboes, was handsome, bald-headed Jeff Davis, head of Hoboes of America, Inc. and the International Itinerant Workers Union. The occasion: his coronation as king of the League of Hoboes of the World. Soon after the crown...
Used cars sold averaged roughly $275 each and at least a third of the deals were "clean" (i.e., cars sold without a car being traded in). Sales ran from two and one-half to three times the normal weekly turnover. Best sellers were the highest-priced models. Ford dealers sold...