Word: forwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Gwendolyn Cafritz, lithe, lynx-eyed wife of Washington Real Estate Millionaire Morris Cafritz (rhymes with "Say Fritz") stepped forward to take Perle Mesta's place. From her luxurious mansion on Foxhall Road, Mrs. Cafritz issued invitations to a mint julep and steak party this week at the Cafritz estate. The guest list, if all showed up, was almost as impressive as a Mesta fiesta. Among those invited: Vice President Barkley, the John Snyders, the Clark Cliffords, Generals Omar Bradley and Hoyt Vandenberg, a hatful of ambassadors and Cabinet members, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...Forward the Heart...
...Lutherans gave the report a restrained welcome. Last week Eric Ruden, general secretary of Sweden's Baptist Union (40,000 members), said: "The most important question . . . abolition of the state church, has not been touched. This is a step forward . . . but we want religious freedom as in the United States...
...Defense Attorney Stryker moved in for cross-examination the audience sat forward expectantly. But the great Thespian was surprisingly gentle. Beyond seeming to lose his temper once, and announcing twice for the jury's benefit that he, himself (unlike Wadleigh), had never gone to Oxford, he hardly seemed to warm up. He attempted unsuccessfully to get Wadleigh to say he had stolen documents from desks other than his own (including Hiss's) and turned the witness loose. At week's end the Government rested its case...
...penny-pinching Broadway bookie, Hope has only two props to work with, but both of them get worked to a fare-thee-well. One is a forward little moppet (Mary Jane Saunders) whom Hope accepts as an I.O.U. on a racing bet and later adopts as a permanent but irresistible liability. The other is a horse called Dreamy Joe. When Mary Jane needs a nightie, Hope flings her a sodden, outsized sweatshirt; when she is sleepy, he sings her a lullaby improvised from a handy racing sheet. When she lies desperately ill in a hospital, Hope smuggles Dreamy...