Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Donald Watson Blackett, Newtonville; Richard William Kislik, New York City; John Hood Ryther, Watertown; Jules Martin Weiss, Kew Gardens, N. Y.; George Austin Willenbrink, Louisville...
Reporters surrounded him. He was a little puzzled by the questions. What was so difficult to understand? God had given him the power to cure; he was using it. Avak removed his hood and hairnet, passed a comb through his tangled hair. Said he: "I think I can cure the younger Arakelian...
From the familiar haunts of Radcliffe to faraway Cleveland, the young women-hood of America will converge here to emulate the doings of such former Jubilee guests as Chill Williams and Ann Sheridan...
...other respects Dalton's budget followed Labor's Robin Hood thesis of taking from the rich to give to the poor. Taxes on distributed profits (dividends) were upped from 5% to 12½% (a few fortunate Britons breathed easier; they had expected a slashing 20% tax). Inheritance duties were almost doubled. Sales taxes were cut on items including boxing gloves, chamber pots and toothpicks. But a whopping 66⅓% purchase tax went onto heating and cooking appliances...
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting and at the piano; Columbia, 6 sides). An early opus-started in 1917, completed in 1921-which lacks the composer's later lyricism, is difficult to play and almost as difficult to take. Performance: good...