Word: latelys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boarded-up 40-room mansion of the late Financier Payne Whitney, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, was sold to a real-estate agent who intends to break up its interior into apartments. Millions of moviegoers had seen its white-marble staircase as part of a Southern plantation house in Gone With the Wind, and as part of an English manor in Rebecca...
Gentle Aurora Aragon Quezon was a well-loved figure in the Philippines. The wife of the late Manuel Quezon, first President of the Philippines, she had long led a quiet, austere life devoted to charities and the rearing of her family. When the President died, she turned down the pension awarded her by the government, so that the money might be used for needier war widows and orphans. Even the Communist-led Hukbalahaps, who spread terror through the hills of Central Luzon, could find no word to say against Doña Aurora...
...naturally also means of a cosmopolitan trend-because they beautify capitalism . . . [My errors] have caused great harm and compelled our economists to return to questions long ago correctly solved by Marxism-Leninism...My mistake was that I did not recognize right away that my critics were correct. But better late than never...
...Hadden shifted to business manager. There, thanks to Luce and Circulation Manager (now president) RoyLarsen, he found things in such good shape that he was bored. As one outlet for his restless energy, Hadden started Tide (later sold), partly, says Busch, for the purpose of heckling TIME. By the late '20s TIME (circulation: 200,000) was so profitable that the partners could plan further expansion. Luce had advanced the idea for FORTUNE, and in his little notebook Hadden had jotted down ideas for a handful of other magazines...
...blurb, Shirley Jackson, whose recent New Yorker stories have been grouped in "The Lottery," is a practicing amateur witch. This is surprisingly easy to believe. For some of her stories manage to conjure up black magic that would have been extremely self-satisfying to any of Miss Jackson's late Salem forerunners...