Word: haworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-two other veterans of World War II who left Kokomo before they finished school will get diplomas too. School Superintendent C. V. Haworth, winking a bit at the rules, figures that the knowledge the boys picked up at war is at least the equivalent of a high-school education...
Died. Volga Haworth Cansino, 47, partner in the onetime famed Cansino dancing team until birth (Oct. 17, 1918) of Daughter Rita Hayworth, who cinemadopted her mother's maiden name; of a heart ailment; in a Santa Monica hospital...
Stinkers Are Stinkers. Slender, well-tailored, attractive Mary Haworth (pronounced Hay'worth) has been doling out reprimands, advice and praise to the Post's sentimental readers for more than nine years. Mostly because she is not averse to calling a stinker a stinker, her "Mary Haworth's Mail" is one of the most widely read columns in the Washington area. Lord Lothian, late British ambassador to the U.S., once told Post Publisher Eugene Meyer that after the front-page news and the editorials he always turned to Mary Haworth...
...Mary Haworth has savvy, writes wrathfully and well; her column answers serious questions (not all about sex problems) painstakingly, often falling back on dictionary definitions of misused words: "love" - "tender and passionate affection...
Screens for Secrecy. Columnist Haworth, now in her 30s, reported for the Wilmington News-Journal in her native Ohio, then solicited ads for the Ohio State-Journal at Columbus. In 1930 she quit, married, went to Washington to live. She joined the Post in 1933, when her second child was still a baby, and after her marriage had gone on the rocks. She later got a divorce (in her column she calls divorce "social surgery" and "a desperate remedy for . . . sick relationship...