Word: ida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good time on this ship I ought not to take money for running it." Next day: "I wouldn't take this job again at five times the pay." The crew loved him. The Captain had two distractions: his $200 guitar, on which he played (badly) such tunes as Ida and Wishing and Nobody...
When Crisco Cooking Talks clicked over New York City's WExF, it was expanded (in 1925) into a network series conducted by Home Economist Ida Bailey Allen. By 1930 P & G strongly suspected that radio was here to stay. Looking around for someone to head its radio department, company officials decided that the copy department chief might qualify. Handsome William McCreary Ramsey II turned out to be a good choice...
Divorced. By Ida Lupino, 27, big-eyed, high-strung cinemactress (The Hard Way): Cinemactor Louis Hayward, 36, ex-Marine Corps captain; after nearly seven years of marriage; in Los Angeles...
...editors took him to lunch, talked about books and articles, and let him savor "the most stimulating, yes, intoxicating, editorial atmosphere then existent in America-or anywhere else." There, with such young associates as Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, William Allen White, Lincoln Steffens, O. Henry, Jack London and Ida Tarbell, he became one of the "muckrakers" who made McClure's the most sensationally successful magazine of its time and a potent influence in U.S. history...
...Ida Lupino, sharp-faced cinema minx, fell victim to a popular domestic hazard when she slipped in her bathtub, was kept to her home with a sprained neck...