Word: lane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambassador to Poland Arthur Bliss Lane, persistently urged a reinvestigation of Katyn. This fall, the Rules Committee appointed a special investigating committee with Democrat Raymond Madden of Indiana as chairman, got the House to authorize $20,000 for expenses...
What is the leading cause of alcoholism nowadays? Not the sordid living conditions that once led to "Gin Lane," say the editors of the British Medical Journal, but hangovers of old-fashioned Puritanism. "In Shakespeare's time," editorializes the Journal, "there were Puritans who condemned drinking out-and-out, and Falstaff is eloquently scornful of them: 'Nor a man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine...
Noel Coward* sat in the front row. The Oliviers were there. So were banks of diplomats, café socialites and other famous faces. By the time the curtain went up on the first British showing of South Pacific, more than 2,300 had crowded into London's Drury Lane Theater...
Last week Du Pont opened Winterthur as a public museum. Guests found over a hundred of its rooms made into authentic re-creations of American living quarters from 1640 to 1840. Winterthur's indoor bowling alley had become an 18th Century shop lane gleaming with china and pewterware. The badminton court was now a cobbled indoor square with fine old house fronts on three sides, and the brick façade of an inn from Red Lion, Del. on the fourth. Even the elevators were finished in antique American paneling. Among the prize exhibits: a set of silver tankards...
...Chicago, Abbe Lane, featured singer with the Xavier Cugat band, and the cause of a separate maintenance suit filed by Mrs. Cugat, told the court her side of the story. Mrs. Cugat had charged that detectives found the singer "naked as a jay bird" in a hotel room with her rumba-loving husband. Not so, said Abbe. She had used the room simply to make a quick change for a midnight movie with the boss. When the detectives burst in, she said, "I had panties on and slippers." but "no brassiere, not with that gown." And how was Mr. Cugat...