Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fresh in Hollywood's memories was a reception at which self-possessed Madame Chiang Kai-shek sat on a dais, received a hundred-odd noted filmsters playing bit parts. Among them: Joan Bennett, first to be presented; Marlene Dietrich, who hovered long at the Madame's side; Gary Cooper, who chewed gum and stood with his hands in his pockets; Fred Astaire, who blushed when she spoke to him; Producer David Selznick's wife Irene and Orson Welles, who gazed gravely and long (see cut). In Hollywood Mme. Chiang spoke to an overflow crowd at the Hollywood...
...contingent of 150 WAVE ensigns, fresh from their initial course at Smith College, will arrive at Briggs Hall tomorrow to fill up the empty space left by the 75 who left last Friday, after more than ten weeks of study under the Supply School here...
Said Chester Davis: "I had been hoping Washington would pass me by and pick someone fresh on the scene. . . . It gives me a hollow feeling...
Died. Edward Wentworth Beatty, K.C., 65, Canadian transportation tycoon; after a year's illness; in Montreal. Fresh out of law school, he joined Canadian Pacific Railway Co. in 1901, became its president in 1918, resigned a year ago. Under him Canadian Pacific operated the greatest privately owned track mileage (21,021) in North America, two-ocean fleets (the famed Empresses), a Great Lakes fleet, a string of luxury hotels (Chateau Frontenac), controlled Canada's second-largest mining company, held some 5,000,000 acres of land, ran its own cable and telegraph systems. A lifelong bachelor, Sir Edward...
...while still in his teens had learned to love a raw egg or two in a glass of wine, had lately lived on little else. His rate of consumption: one to four quarts of wine a day, two to six dozen eggs a week. To be certain of enough fresh eggs, he left his family a few years ago to start a chicken farm. The strange eczema-like rash, which had grown redder and flakier for five years, soon faded on hospital diet, but the patient was still sick with other ailments unconnected with egg white - a urinary tract infection...