Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain itself, reform is resisted. Last week the Institute of Chartered Accountants warned that unless Britain abandoned ?, s. and d., it would be by 1965 "the last significant upholder of that system." Britons, as usual, heard the announcement with the stony silence usually reserved for ill-bred bounders...
Evanston, Ill...
...significantly, the reunion was held not at the old rear-center table in the Rose Room of the Algonquin but in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Edison, five blocks and 90 light-years away. The most notable living absentees were George S. Kaufmann, who is ill, and Dorothy Parker, who was accused of probably missing the invitation because she never opens her mail...
...fall by politically unknown John Marshall Butler, who was actively backed by McCarthy in a gutter campaign featuring a phony composite photograph showing Tydings in apparently friendly conversation with Communist Earl Browder, Tydings won nomination to the Senate in 1956 but withdrew from his last political scrap because of ill health...
...Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. Ill, edited by Leonard W. Labaree. The collected clutter of this astonishing man may occupy 40 volumes, but this one obviously is a prize; it contains his most important studies on electricity and Verses on the Virginia Capitol Fire, a witty parody on the fulsome prose of an 18th century Governor prying more money out of his legislature...