Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wars. Just before the shelling, a German officer gave a German reason for it: "These Belgian swine have an insulting inscription about us on their library." The officer was wrong. Cardinal Mercier's proposed inscription-Furore Teutonico Diruta, Dono Americano Restituta (Destroyed by German Fury, Restored by American Gift)-was never used because Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler and U.S. pacifists denounced it as hate-breeding...
Born. To Maria Montez, 28, the Dominican Republic's gift to Hollywood, and Jean Pierre Aumont, 33, boyish-looking French cinemactor (The Cross of Lorraine), in 1940 a tankman at Sedan: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Maria Christine. Weight...
...this indignation of the Conservative Party over a little bit of territory's being added to the British Empire." The storm extended to the Brooke household. The Raja's good-looking nephew and onetime heir apparent, Anthony, wrote letters to the press denouncing his uncle's gift as an "anachronistic arrangement...
...Italy's shortage of silks and gold braid, could outfit only twelve of the 32 new cardinals completely the American archbishops and Bishop Tien drew on the wardrobes of the late Cardinals Mundelein, O'Connell anc Hayes. But the Pope would provide the red hats-a personal gift-as well as the topaz rings that are the badge of office...
Once again it was Wyndol Gray who sparked the Crimson drive. Despite a physical battering by the hard-driving Jumbos which resulted in a gift of 14 free throws, the slim Ohio stylist passed and dribbled the team to its second and equally close triumph over the Medford team. By his spectacular sharpshooting, he also surpassed his previous scoring record of 25 points with a total of 28 markers, 12 of them from the foul line; he averaged one point per minute throughout the first half...