Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth Generation Nymphet...
...your Nov. 24 story on "The Vanishing Geisha." Possibly Tokyo's 600 geisha are all aged; however, I assure you that there are as many geisha as before the war, both young and aged. I enclose a photograph which shows one youngster, now eleven, who will become a fourth-generation geisha. In training since the sixth month and sixth day of her sixth year, she received the right to her dance teacher's name (Onoe) a few months...
Using six more pens, the President next signed an executive order designating a new 49-star national flag to become official on the Fourth of July. Design of the new flag: seven staggered rows of seven white stars set in a blue canton within the field of 13 alternate red and white stripes. Said the President as he signed: "Well, that is a historic thing." And at ceremony's end he noted to the special guests, Vice President Nixon, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Alaska Senators-elect E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett, Ernest Gruening, Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton...
...Keenly aware that he will lose the right to legislate by simple decree once he is formally inducted as President this week (see below), De Gaulle spent the last days of his premiership grinding out laws so distasteful to France's vested interests that no government of the Fourth Republic had ever dared to adopt them...
...Republic, is known in Gaullist circles as "the most faithful of the faithful." A practising Roman Catholic of partly Jewish ancestry, Debre has been a Gaullist since he escaped from a World War II Nazi prison camp to join the French Resistance. Mildness is not his style. Under the Fourth Republic, his ferocious attacks on the old parliamentary system both in France's Senate and in his weekly Messenger of Anger won him the nickname of Pèrè Colère-roughly, Old Man Fury...