Word: girls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Song. The President's girl guests were 96 members (two from each state) of the American Legion Auxiliary's "Girls Nation." They came trooping into the White House grounds to be presented one by one. Mr. Truman beamed on them in the White House rose garden...
That night at the gala dinner, the politicos had their happy fill of virtue, curried shrimp and good cheer. Harry Truman kidded Vice President Alben Barkley about his St. Louis girl friend, and McGrath introduced the Veep, to great applause, as "the squire of Paducah and the new spirit of St. Louis." Barkley said imperturbably that "there has always been an inseparable connection between Kentucky and Missouri and it looks like it's going to continue-I hope...
...steadiest job-seeking callers at Producer Janney's offices since the start of the Communist trial had been Carol Nathanson, a willowy, 26-year-old singer and actress who works under the name of Carol Nason and dabbles in party-line dialectics. Like many a show girl...
Czechoslovakia's Communist regime last week moved decisively against a new enemy of the people: the pin-up girl. The Czech army, reported the Prague radio, had ordered that all her kind be pulled down from barracks walls and in her place soldiers would see "slogans, pictures of shock workers and examples of our fighting tradition...
...time he was 15, Stan had a steady girl (now Mrs. Stan Musial) who was the daughter of the neighborhood grocer and had some standing in the community as Donora High's star pitcher. He was also bat boy during the summer for the zinc works' semi-pro team, managed by Joe Barbao. One day, with his club shorthanded and his pitcher wilting before the Monessen (Pa.) sluggers, Joe sent Bat Boy Musial to the mound. The rest of the team thought it was a joke until Musial struck out a batter: he wound up by striking...