Word: homed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adopted. By Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, 50, boohooing, bellicose cinecomedian; a second daughter, Phyllis Anne, 7 months; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The first daughter (also adopted), Carol Ann, is 8, has cin-emacted (China Seas). Twice divorced, Papa Beery maintains a motherless home...
...Schoolmarm Campbell relaxed, saw that her brood were well wrapped in overcoats, shooed them home...
...have France and Britain begun buying bedroom suites for the Maginot Line. The something which has happened to the furniture industry is not war. The something is that 1939 began with subnormal inventories and an incipient home building boom. Last spring, with builders turning out nearly twice as many new homes as in 1938, furniture makers prepared for a rise. This fall, in spite of World War II, it blew...
...boom, furniture manufacturers were not cheery. They believed that retailers were stocking up faster than the public was buying. They feared that raw material prices would rise, boosting prices and nipping the industry's little boomlet. They gloomed that if World War II brings increased construction costs, new home building will suffer. All the same, 1939 household furniture sales should exceed $400,000,000 for the first time since...
...named after St. Anastasia, who had her tongue cut out for resisting the advances of Roman Emperor Valerian), Anastasie was revived by a French satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchaine, when World War II began. She presides over the crowded corridors of the Hotel Continental in the Rue de Castiglione, home of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux's Ministry of Information...