Word: homeliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Publisher Parish to Seattle last week went the Star's onetime best editor, 54-year-old Abraham Hurwitz, who rose from office boy, trained a generation of reporters who are still Seattle's best newsmen. Since 1940 Hurwitz, one of the homeliest newspapermen alive, has been editor of the Western Newspaper Union (feature syndicate for small weeklies...
They call it all sorts of names: "jeep," "beep," "peep," "bug," "chigger."* But by any name this homeliest item in the U.S. Army's rolling stock, the 2,200-lb. midget combat car, has, after a year and a half of service, been recognized as an unexpected and unique success...
While Japanese soldiers in French Indo-China made ugly faces across the border at Thailand, the U.S. decided that Bangkok was no place for a noncareer diplomat, hastily picked one of the ablest (and homeliest) career men in its Far Eastern diplomatic service to replace the Alabama politico who has been U.S. Minister there since...
Mary Ann (later Marian) Evans (later George Eliot) was one of the homeliest women who ever wrote a first-rate English novel. She was also one of the most affectionate. For many years she looked for a man who would prefer character to beauty and in Publisher John Chapman she thought she had found him. This episode, overlooked by John W. Cross in his official Life of George Eliot, was resuscitated last fortnight to the delight of literary gossips when Chapman's diaries were published with a lively, 119-page introduction by Gordon S. Haight...