Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipbuilders overlooked no one: Sophie Tucker, Mrs. Henry J. Kaiser, Elsa Maxwell, Madame Ivy Litvinov, the Dionne Quintuplets, Barbara Douglas Arnold, daughter of Planemaker Donald Douglas. For helping to launch the S.S. Mormacisle a $225 gold pin was given to Mrs. James M. Mead Jr., daughter-in-law of the Senate investigator himself...
...York Loons. It is natural enough for such a cat to be: 1) a guest expert on a radio quiz program (so that Smith can have some fun with Information Please); 2) play host at a literary cocktail party (with much kidding of a large lady who is presumably Elsa Maxwell); 3) pose for a TIME cover (still on the unused "bank...
...Quaker, just back from seven years as a missionary in the Orient, and he thought himself pretty tolerant. But one day in 1925 Thomas Elsa Jones walked into a washroom at Columbia University, and found himself resenting the presence of a Negro, washing his hands. "My old feelings of superiority came back," he said, and he was alarmed. Jones ran into the Negro again in a German class, and discovered that the Negro knew more German than he did. "Soon we were playing handball together-and in less than a year I had accepted the presidency of Fisk University...
...president of the most prestigious Negro college in the South, 58-year-old Thomas Jones decided it was time to leave. His old Quaker alma mater, Indiana's small, earnest Earlham College (enrollment: 450), had offered him its presidency. Behind him in Nashville, slow-speaking, spiritual Thomas Elsa Jones left a tough challenge to his old students: "The Negro will get respect when he does things to command respect...
...years ago, the Service News showed that a picture billed with seductive hoopla by the Gaiety Theatre on Washington Street was really just the old (1939) Elsa Maxwell hit, "Hotel For Women," a staid enough piece by even Watch and Ward standards. While its policy is less consistent and less, salacious, the Majestic Theatre, too, is currently deceiving its audiences, though it isn't trying to get away with anything...