Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trusteeship Council faced a complaint from St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance, London (a Catholic lay organization dedicated to women's rights) concerning the Fon (king) of Bikom, in the British Cameroons. Missionaries had reported the Fon to have 600 wives. Britain icily retorted that he had only 110. Said Iraqi Delegate Awni Khalidy: "It seems to me the proper way would be to leave this man to discover the futility of his actions for himself ... in God's good time." On a Russian suggestion, the matter was passed on to the Commission on Human Rights...
...Walter Lantz, whose animated cartoon hero Woody Woodpecker also uses the laugh, then whooshed it off to a publisher. Kay Kyser got it on wax just before James Caesar Petrillo's New Year's Eve recording ban. Tibbies and Idriss, still playing in the band on the Joan Davis show, stand to make $10,000 apiece from...
...Audisio, Communist executioner of Benito Mussolini (TIME, April 7, 1947). Audisio rushed up to Tomba, cried: "If you are a gentleman, come outside in the garden." Tomba declined, but the fracas became a free-for-all; even a Communist woman deputy, Laura Diaz (known to her admirers as the "Joan Crawford of Parliament"), joined in, whacking at bearded Christian Democrats. Contestants ripped out stenographers' desks, used them as clubs. Three deputies had to be treated for injuries. It was the worst riot in the loo-year history of Parliament...
...Sainted Sisters. An easy-to-like comedy in which Veronica Lake and Joan Caulfield, city crooks, try to fleece a down-East village (TIME...
Before the speechifying started, the Bowl audience was entertained by a lively, two-hour amateur musical show called The Good Road, in which 160 Buchmanites skillfully compounded propaganda for "God-control" from such various elements as Swiss yodelers, Joan of Arc, Lincoln, Washington, the Magna Carta, a G.I. on Okinawa, and an average family...