Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loudest hurrahs came from the Republicans. In New York, as everyone had predicted, it was Tom Dewey by a mile; in Pennsylvania it was James Duff who rode in on the Martin ticket; in Connecticut, James L. McConaughy, onetime college president; in Michigan, racket-busting Kim Sigler; in California, Earl Warren, who had both parties' nominations. In Kansas it was veteran congressional tax expert Frank Carlson in a walk (despite his tacit support of the state's anomalous bone-dry law) over repeal-minded Harry Hines Woodring...
...football camps, a deceptive defense had now become almost as important as a tricky offense. Said Notre Dame's Frank Leahy: "Defense has always bored me ... it's not stimulating. But I'm stressing it this season." In six games this year, Army's Coach Earl Blaik swore that his opponents had not used the same defense two plays in a row. The trick was to keep the offense off balance, mix up their blocking assignments. Michigan's defensive quarterback sometimes called for a four-man line with five backers-up. Some defense-happy coaches...
Engaged. The Hon. Richard Frederick Wood, 26, alert, active (despite the loss of both legs in the fighting in North Africa) younger son of the Earl of Halifax, former British Ambassador to the U.S.; and Diana Kellett, 19, daughter of the late Lieut. Colonel Edward O. Kellett, M.P.; in London...
...sharp-eyed Emilio saved a girl from drowning off a Chicago beach. She turned out to be an Earl Carroll dancer. Indio was picked up by the Edgewater Beach theatrical crowd, and his proficiency at Latin dances attracted the attention of Rudolph Valentino, who became his friend. After Valentino's death, Indio rode the funeral train to Los Angeles, landed there broke and jobless...
Topsy, a Pig, & Grandmama. Father Rupert Potter, a barrister, was as awe-inspiring as Jehovah (see cut). In London's respectable Earl's Court, he and Mrs. Potter ate breakfast, alone, in absolute silence. Then Mr. Potter went to his club. At 1 o'clock, a small cutlet and some rice pudding went up to the nursery by the back stairs. Then a Calvinist nurse named McKenzie came and took little Beatrix for a good walk...