Word: eva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicly posted for three days before a ceremony, he saw something which made him goggle. Winthrop Rockefeller, 35, of New York-the fourth of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s five sons and one of the most eligible bachelors in the world-had stated his intention of marrying one Eva Sears, 31, also of New York...
...years of the often wise, often witty column, "Topics of The Times," Strunsky had a far-darting eye. In a single week, he looked at plays of violence, Dartmouth College, the Marshall Plan, Herodotus, New Mexico (from dinosaurs to A-bombs), "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Eastern potentates, bestsellers, babysitting, Eva Perón, the War Assets Administration and Existentialism. Strunsky's skillful use of the telling fact, the apt comparison, the impeccable word made "Topics" a model of the vanishing essay form. Without blushing, his admirers, from Franklin P. Adams to Lin Yutang, compared Strunsky to Addison & Steele and Charles...
...front-but two of the seven judges had not picked her for first place. Two days later, in the free skating, Barbara Ann easily distanced the competition, boosted her point total to the highest score (181.66) ever awarded in a Prague rink. Runner-up: Austria's Eva Pawlik...
Other smokers in the past have borne such renowned names as Frank Fay. Eva Le Galhenne, Hildegarde, and Babe Ruth...
...tterdämmerung. In Durban, South Africa, one A. Hitler was arrested and charged with assaulting his friend, Eva Braun...