Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samuel Lewis, business manager of Local 3, accused the committee of favoring management against the workers. "Now don't talk that way," warned Georgia's Congressman John Wood. Bellowed Lewis: "Never mind how I talk." Lewis was convoyed out, snapping at the marshals, "Don't push me, take your hands off me," and still trying to make a speech...
...without feeling, consciously or not, that this was poetry, and of an epic sort: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado . . . Kansas, Kentucky and Maine . . . Nebraska, Ohio, the Dakotas . . . Vermont and Wisconsin and Wyoming. The voices from the floor were rich with the flavor of the broad land. They spoke with local pride: Georgia, the empire state of the South . . . the great, free state of Maryland . . . Virginia, the cradle of democracy . . . Hawaii, standing on the threshold of statehood...
...women have made their mark in the arts, and that they are mostly singers (Schumann-Heink), dancers (Pavlova) or novelists (Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot). There have been women composers like Cécile Chaminade, but no Bachs or Beethovens; painters like Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe, but no Rembrandts or Michelangelos; poets like Sappho and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but no Dantes; a few top women pianists* and virtually no memorable violinists...
Born. To Gustav George ("Gus") Lesnevich, 33, light-heavyweight boxing champion (since August 1941-a record), and Georgianna Dobson Lesnevich, 26, onetime model: their third and fourth children, twin daughters; in Englewood, N.J. Names: Georgia Alice, Jill Linda. Weights...
...Austin S. Edwards of the University of Georgia works for a tobacco-growing state, but in the latest Journal of Applied Psychology he reports one effect of tobacco smoking: it increases "finger tremor," an indication of disturbance in the nervous system...