Word: graveyard
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...picture had been torn out of the lower left-hand corner of page two after he had quarreled with his father. Opposing attorneys tried for two days to cross-question her into inconsistencies, had no luck at all. One woman claimed that Wilson Strickland was buried in her family graveyard in New Orleans beside Napoleon Bonaparte and John Paul Jones...
...Week Pictorial (now defunct), Current History, the Annalist, its rotogravure plant-last week disposed of Wide World Photos, Inc. The buyer: A.P., whose picture service now has only two major competitors, Acme and International. ^ Current History has been through a series of mergers in which it became the graveyard of such once famous magazines as Century and the Forum, last week was merged again with the monthly Events...
...bone of his action. He never just blows up a loud atmosphere of adventure; every stratagem, every seafaring event is an intricate equation of courage, technique and sea-chance. He could make the sea exciting to a sailor, and its ways understandable to the harbor master of an Iowa graveyard...
...sentimentally attached to Fenghua's bamboo-shaded hills, where he rested his injured back after he was kidnapped by the Communists and "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, to its streets, which he widened out of his own pocket, to its school, which he built, to its graveyard, which he regards with proper filial devotion, since his mother is buried there...
...some sharp criticism from New York City's Park Commissioner Robert Moses (TIME, March 10), last week caught another egg squarely on the ear. The egg was hurled with a will by tough, swart little Missouri Painter Thomas Hart Benton. Growled he: the average museum was "a graveyard run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait. ... Do you want to know what's the matter with the art business in America? It's the third sex and the museums. Even in Missouri we're full of 'em. Our museums...