Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago last week Hitler went to war against Poland. Four years ago Douglas MacArthur, with a cigarette holder in his mouth, stepped down from an airplane toward the tall grass waving in the south wind at Atsugi airfield, Japan. That was a time of hope...
...Highlands, N.J., 42-year-old Gertrude Ederle, after 23 years still holder of the women's speed record for swimming the English Channel, wished the best of luck to 17-year-old Shirley May France, training for the same feat. In England, Shirley May primly assured the world that there would be a bathing suit under her coat of grease...
...majors' most distinguished record holder: Outfielder Tyrus Raymond Cobb, who played in 3,033 games in 24 years, quit at 41 with a record lifetime batting average of .367, a record of 892 stolen bases. * Since 1944, director of sandlot baseball for the New York Journal-American...
...more than two years, at every roll call, Senate clerks had written the words "necessarily absent" after the name of the senior Senator from New York. Nevertheless, Senate pages continued to tend the inkwell and sand holder at his vacant desk, and his name appeared from time to time (as a cosponsor) on Senate bills...
...London luncheon in her honor, Marlene Dietrich forgot that one does not smoke in a formal dining room until the King has been toasted. Between courses, she puffed on a green cigarette holder while the traditional uniformed toastmaster stared in horror. When he could stand it no longer, he banged his gavel close to Marlene's fingers, called for the toast, then roared pointedly: "Ladies & Gentlemen, you may now smoke!" Marlene spluttered, reddened, hid her head and finally apologized...