Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more disturbed by the new words than by the old things they signify, nationalists and lingual purists have long resisted the verbal invasion, to less & less avail. Last week, admitting defeat on the spoken front, a group called the Commission for the Preservation of Spanish launched a last-ditch counteroffensive by invoking a long-dormant law regarding billboards...
...their positions carefully and conserving energy, were hoary holdovers from the salad days of U.S. polo. The great Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. was gone (killed in a wartime plane crash in Britain) but one of his contemporaries, 45-year-old Cecil Smith, was in there riding at No. 3. Up front, his back ramrod-stiff as always, rode the old man of the team, Eric Pedley...
...Front Man. For almost 37 years, ever since he went to work in his father's Los Angeles jewelry store at 16, Harry Winston has suffered from what he calls "diamonditis." At 21, with $2,000 in his pockets, he came to Manhattan to buy & sell precious stones...
Self-conscious because of his youth and size, Winston hired a distinguished-looking man of 70 to go around with him as a front for his deals. Before he was 34 he had bought & sold such famous collections as Empire-Builder Collis P. Huntington's and Mining Tycoon E. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin's. He also learned that gem buying could be tricky. Once he bought $90,000 worth which he later found had been taken from Socialite Mrs. Isaac Emerson, wife of the Bromo-Seltzer king. Winston had to return...
Died. Sir Seymour Hicks, 78, veteran British actor, author and dramatist; in Fleet, England. Sir Seymour (knighted by King George V in 1935) appeared in nearly 100 plays (he helped write 64 plays, authored eleven books), was the first Briton to take a theatrical troupe to the front lines in France during World...