Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apple of His Eye (by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Robinson; produced by Jed Harris) tells of a prosperous Indiana farmer (Walter Huston) who falls in love with his hired girl (Mary James). Knowing that he is old enough to be her father, he is not bold enough to ask for her hand. While his neighbors' tongues wag and his family's hearts sink, he squires the unsuspecting young lady to carnivals and Chinese restaurants, strains his eyes going without glasses, sprains his tack showing off as a wrestler. After much stewing, he sends the girl away. After much scene...
...father-in-law lives), goes shopping every other morning, likes to cook, doesn't like quick-frozen foods, won't use corn syrup to stretch sugar recipes, serves the day's big meal at 5 p.m., and, up to last week, had never been out of Indiana...
...least one tumble. Of these, only West Virginia seemed to be in Notre Dame's class. But there was a handful of once-beaten court giants itching to stake a championship claim. The top two: Oklahoma A. & M. (once beaten, by De Paul), Iowa (once beaten, by Indiana...
Ohio banned sale of K-F's new issue because there was no earnings record to warrant the 100%-plus hike in the price. So did Michigan, which coldly stated that the stock could not meet its security regulations. Indiana ordered that the stock be sold only in zoo-share lots. Said Indiana Securities Commissioner Kenneth Weddle: "The stock definitely is a speculation so far. . . . Therefore we'll limit the sale to those who can afford to take the risk...
...Bevin is one of them. There were cheers when he said Britain was ready to put her mandates of Tanganyika, Togoland and the Cameroons under UNO trusteeship. There were still longer cheers, led by the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, when he promised early independence to Trans-Jordan, whose Indiana-sized expanse includes mud, lifeless desert and the Dead Sea. The Emir Abdullah was at once invited to London to implement the deal...