Word: eighteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interest in Janet Spencer, a spinster who had retreated to an aesthetic world, arose from an intellectual affinity he had never found in his invalid, self-pitying wife. Miss Spencer poisoned the wife assuming that she thus freed the husband for herself. It actually freed him to marry an eighteen year old girl with whom he had been having an affair...
...nicknames which women of café society wear like amusing jewelry. Hers was "Bobo." The Searses lived in Boston, where Bobo did war relief work; in Los Angeles, where she played minor roles in motion pictures; and finally in Paris, where Sears was third secretary in the U.S. embassy. Eighteen months ago, at a dinner party given by Mrs. Elizabeth ("Liz") Whitney, Bobo met Winthrop Rockefeller...
...best time for the government to pay off the national debt. A cut that induced savings might have some value, but the Knutson Bill frees from 10 to 30 percent of individual taxes for ready spending. And with the already rising prices, little saving is done: 1947's eighteen billion dollar increase in incomes was all spent, and this by itself forced prices up considerably. Of course the economic future of the U. S. is unpredictable, but the present seems to be the worst time to cut taxes radically...
...Eighteen varsity swimmers come up against the Army at West Point tomorrow when they try their hand at Eastern Intercollegiate League competition for the first time this year...
...Joyful Hour (Sat. 9 p.m., Mutual). Eighteen stars, headed by the stage & screen's Ethel Barrymore, in a special salute to Christmas...