Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the Adventists announced at they had signed an agreement with the United Auto Workers (CIO). Adventist auto workers agreed to contribute the monetary equivalent of union dues to a sick-benefit or some other workmen's benevolent fund, and to refrain from backing either side in the event of a strike. In return, they will receive from the union a card exempting them from all dues, meetings and other union activities in any of the U.A.W.'s 900 locals...
...lettered coupons for Garden and Arena tickets can be exchanged for seats a week before the game until noon the day of the event...
...lady of Mayfair. "If it were somebody else's wedding, maybe I'd be as excited as the Americans seem to be. But it's the Royal Family and it bores me." A London cook and waitress politely declined a proffered holiday to celebrate the great event. "We'll go if you think we should, Madam," they told their American mistress. There were other Britons as apathetic, and some were downright resentful at the gushers of news concerning the wedding...
...public expense. But for many another Londoner, the wedding was a happy excuse to forget personal hardships, to sentimentalize and enjoy again the elaborate and almost forgotten pageantry of royalty on display. "Why, I can feel myself getting excited already," said a City office girl a week before the event...
...unfaithful wife murders her husband, just home from the war, whereupon her daughter, who has always loved father as immoderately as she has loathed mother, persuades brother to murder mother's lover. When mother hears of this event (from her son's cruel lips), she shoots herself. Her monstrously affectionate children then suffer a monstrous expiation. Demented by remorse and ingrown desire, the son shoots himself in order to join mother. Daughter determines to "live alone with the dead, and keep their secrets, and let them hound me, until the curse is paid out and the last Mannon...