Word: dora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointed Governor of Bengal. Burrows' sal ary jumps from $832 as a railway checker to $36,000 a year, and up to $176,040 in allowances. He leaves his six-room Herefordshire cottage for a palace in Calcutta. He and his wife took the news in stride. Said Dora Beatrice Burrows: "We shan't be any different. We are working people and always will be. I'll try to do everything I am expected to do. I need more coupons for dresses, though...
...wife, Dora, and their son, Arod, travel ahead in a sound truck, to act as circus advance men. They all put on a show: Glenn sings hillbilly songs, then starts his spiel. A rank isolationist in 1940, he plumps now for total war. In 1940 he called Franklin Roosevelt a bankers' tool; now Cowboy Glenn has nothing but praise for the President. The Cowboy wants a just peace, a planned post-war America...
...difficult task in writing has faced H. H. and Margaret Harper in their attempt to construct an integrated dramatic work from the clues furnished in the correspondence of Dickens and Dora Spenlow. Twenty-one years of Dickens' life, the passing parade from poverty to success, and three romances are a lot of material; the resulting sacrifice of continuity and development to a more complete story shows quite plainly in spots. Further, there is a feeling that the dialogue of Dickens and his two true loves, Dora Spenlow and Caroline Bronson, waxes a bit rhapsodical in their secret trysts--too much...
...done in the morning before 9 o'clock and after classes. It was virtually completed by 3 o'clock. With 30 registrars working all times in each place, there were never any lines. The average rate was two per registrar per hour although certain faculty wives, most noticeably Mrs. Dora Marshall, were pressed...
...Died. Dora Delano Forbes, 92, maternal aunt of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; longtime resident of Paris; in Balmville...