Word: effingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sale. In Effingham, Ill., John Trett couldn't understand why money kept disappearing from his café cash register; finally dismantled the machine, uncovered a tidy mouse nest constructed of $1 and $5 bills...
...Colonel Effingham's Raid (20th Century-Fox), from the novel by Berry Fleming, tells the story of W. Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a garrulous, fabulous old Southern colonel who descends on a small city in Georgia and, before he has finished, practically turns the place upside down. The picture depends mostly upon the colonel's warlike antics and vocabulary, and upon some mild byplay involving William Eythe and Joan Bennett as newspaper reporters. The local color possibilities were enormous, but the producer and director of this picture evidently didn't think them worth the trouble. Most...
Since 1926 Sister Antonia (Mary Ru-hall) of Effingham, Ill., has been a Catholic missionary in New Guinea. She is sweet-faced, smiling, with remarkably clear blue eyes, a low-pitched, warm voice. Last week in the U.S. military hospital...
...backs and bunions of U.S. postmen ached more than usual last week. The Book-of-the-Month Club was sending out its March selections: William Saroyan's warmhearted The Human Comedy (TIME, March 1), Berry Fleming's ladylike Colonel Effingham's Raid. Mail carriers have long been used to the load dumped on them by the U.S. Post Office's fourth largest customer,* but last week's was the greatest fardel of them all-342,000 copies of The Human Comedy alone. Crowed The Book-of-the-Month Club: "The largest advance printing...
Lady Howard of Effingham, who was born in Hungary and spent most of her youth in Budapest, was suddenly "detained" by Scotland Yard under the Defense of the Realm Act. Britons were relieved to know that her blue-blooded husband, Lord Howard of Effingham, has long been separated from...