Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take exception to your editorial comment that the public is not "clamoring" to buy Joan Crawford? Having had the privilege of producing her last four pictures and starting on her fifth, I can assure you that the only people in America who like Miss Crawford are. the moviegoers . . . Since when is "sophisticated fortyishness" not attractive? I firmly believe that this country is growing up, and in so doing can have other tastes than dewy-eyed youngsters on their screens . . . Miss Crawford's legions of followers are larger today than at any previous time, while her career has never been...
...Southern Democrats over civil rights. Michigan's Homer Ferguson produced some figures to shift the blame right back to the Democrats. As he had it, the Republicans had used up only 1,563 and one-ninth pages of the Record; Democrats had used 1,612 and four-ninths...
That might be an answer to the Senators, but the House wasn't listening. Since the Senate wouldn't agree to a formal adjournment, the House had another out: it would simply start a series of three-day recesses, which require no Senate approval. For the next four weeks. Speaker Sam Rayburn announced, only a corporal's guard would need to stay in town-someone to act as Speaker, a functionary to parade the mace (which is the symbol of House authority), and someone to move adjournment every day after the journal has been approved...
Sere & Yellow. In Iona, Fla., Richard Thompson, 90, calmly threw away his 40-year-old false teeth because they were getting in the way of four new molars just coming through...
...This is a good marriage. I love my wife and I am confident she loves me...She loves me in bed, and she never shows the slightest interest in any other men..." Four years later, Grace Tate made love to the son of a local Irish politician in the back seat of her car. When people found out, as people will, the Tate marriage was ruined and so was Grace's life...