Word: ida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...specifications,'' I do know that my teeth seem to be nearly perfect, and are considered quite unusual by my dentist. Contrary to the experience of Miss Price, however, I have always liked candy, ice cream, pie, and fruit, and have consumed plenty in my lifetime! IDA D. RICHARDS...
...durable Poles were still in the running on the Adriatic flank. In three weeks they had advanced 30 miles up the coast. Last week they snatched Ancona from two German divisions. Ancona's port-handy for Yugoslavia-was stoppered, like Leghorn, with wrecked ships. Among them: the Ida, 498-ton pride of passionate yachtsman ex-King Vittorio Emanuele...
Samuel Sidney McClure, original muckraking publisher (McClure's Magazine, 1893-1914), won the Order of Merit of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for his past journalistic crusades. Now white-thatched, withered, 87, the onetime editor of Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Winston Churchill's father Randolph has been working for years on a book called The Coming of Freedom. Said National Institute President Arthur ("Mr. Tutt") Train: "The American people owe a great debt to this man, once famous, now almost forgotten." Said old-time Editor McClure (who will...
...Time (Warners) earnestly dramatizes the collision between a resistible force (liberalism) and a movable object (feudalism). The place: Poland, just before World War II. When Polish Aristocrat Paul Henreid tells his family he intends to marry British Commoner Ida Lupino, his mother drop's and breaks a cherished teacup. They marry anyhow, and by the time the Nazis invade Poland the wife has turned her idle husband into a man, his estate into a solvent farm, his ancestral home into a one-night playroom for the peasants-who are delighted to have become sharecroppers. A reactionary uncle...
...Ida B. Wise Smith, 72 and perky, national president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, testified that her organization represents "organized mother love" battling against the entrenched liquor czars. Further, said she, housewives are short of sugar because too much is being diverted to the breweries...