Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diego reappeared Ruth Elder, famed speed-&-distance flyer of the '205. Ruth, who has survived one forced landing in mid-Atlantic (in 1927) and five marriages, has now set her hand to writing an aviation column for the San Diego Journal...
...Chicago professors expect to stay at the University of Frankfurt for the current 13-week term, then make way for a new team from the Midway. The first string: German-born Theological Historian Wilhelm Pauck, Austrian-born Zoologist Paul Weiss, Sociologist Everett Hughes, Poet-Political Philosopher Elder James Olson, the I.Q.-testing husband-&-wife team of Psychologists Louis and Thelma Thurstone, and Executive Secretary Roger Oake...
Just before dawn in Peiping's model prison a policewoman called to Yoshiko Kawashima through the barred opening of her cell. But Yoshiko slept soundly. Her cell mate, Mrs. Li, a middle-aged opium smuggler, shook her. Said Mrs. Li in great compassion: "Get up, foolish-elder brother...
Novelist Alec Waugh, balding elder brother of Novelist Evelyn, explained to a Manhattan interviewer how the Waughs kept from tripping over each other. "We made a compact," recalled Alec, "that we wouldn't go to the same countries. . . . He took the Catholic countries-he's Catholic, you know. I took the cricket countries. I like cricket and football." Henry L Mencken, keg-shaped sage of Baltimore, received the press on the occasion of a new supplement to The American Language. He reported that the Baltimore Sun had invited him to report both political conventions this year...
Provocation. While American Tobacco was headed by the elder George Washington Hill, Adman Foote had never openly questioned its raucous advertising of Lucky Strikes. "Would you argue with Babe Ruth," he explained, "if he were showing you how to hold a bat?" But after the elder Hill died a year and a half ago and 71-year-old Vincent Riggio succeeded him as president, Foote, like the younger Hill, was gradually provoked to a point beyond the bounds of "respectful disagreement," finally decided to quit...