Word: helena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pushed her triumph too far. Forbidden to attend the Coronation, she tried to enter Westminster Abbey and was hooted by the crowd. Broken in spirit, perhaps understanding at last what a clown she had appeared for years, she failed rapidly. When news of Napoleon's death on St. Helena reached England, a satellite informed the King: "Sir, your greatest enemy is dead!" "Is she, by God?" cried Prinney, slapping his thigh...
PENROSE H. RADLEY RALPHE MERRILL JOSEPH EARL HORNER WARREN F. BRASS JANICE LEE TORBERT Helena, Mont...
Speaking of Helena, what do you mean "where natives eke out a meagre existence"? That's new to us. It is still one of the richest, per capita, cities in these United States. (Time was, when it was rated the richest.) Today, as formerly, it is referred to by our visiting Easterners, of whom we have many, as the "City of beautiful homes and well-dressed inhabitants." If you don't believe it, come out and see us sometime and we shall be glad to show...
WINIFRED GALUSHA Helena, Mont...
...Well-favored Helenans, whose civic vigor TIME salutes, misconstrued the intended meaning of "eke out." Its irony, TIME supposed, was as plain as Helena's backyard Mt. Ascension and Mt. Helena. Whether second richest U. S. city or not is something for Helena to fight out with such claimants as Winston-Salem, N. C., Pasadena, Calif., Greenwich, Conn., Dallas, Texas, Washington...