Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami, Fla., a woman told M. C. Mann she would buy his house if he got rid of termites, recommended an "exterminator." After crawling under the porch for half an hour, the man demanded $40. Mann paid. He is still waiting for the customer...
Last week Wendell Willkie was at Jupiter Island, Fla., sleeping, reading, basking, bicycling for exercise. He had not yet helped the Republican Party solve the problem of who would be its national chairman for the next four years. Whether he would try to keep Representative Joe Martin in the job or let the post pass to the hands of some willing party hack was a question still in suspense. Columnist David Lawrence, in his United States News, seized the moment to make a wholly unorthodox suggestion...
...within reach of the average man's pocket-book-many exhibitors got fancy ideas about value. In Manhattan's impoverished Harlem, at the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, asking prices ranged from $50 to $2,000. Painter F. G. Schoen of Jacksonville, Fla. pinned a tag for $10,000 on his picture of a Madonna and child. In Rochester another $10,000 Madonna was submitted by an Italian immigrant woman named Caroline Vara. Painter Vara's Madonna, which swooned biliously with unintentional surrealism over a macrocephalic child, was painted after a $175 correspondence course...
...millions of Americans every gaudy, traditional aspect of the circus is little less than sacred. Last week those sanctities were seriously threatened. Modernist Designer Norman Bel Geddes, who conceived General Motors' famed Futurama at the recent New York World's Fair, arrived at the Sarasota, Fla. winter quarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's circus to begin a two-year modernization of "The Greatest Show On Earth." Mr. Geddes quickly assured the press that nothing newfangled would be done with clowns, elephants, acrobats. He gave a few hints as to his intentions. Next year, he said...
...days after he resigned as executive director of the Republican National Committee; and Jane Kendall Mason, 30 (according to Mrs. Coolidge "the most beautiful debutante who ever entered the White House"), who last month divorced George Grant Mason Jr., member of the Civil Aeronautics Board; in Tampa, Fla...