Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Blue Tiles) has been a private palace, the Jockey Club, the Russian Embassy, the Japanese Embassy, a dormitory for homeless newsboys, and, since 1919, the home of Sanborn's, most famous American business in Mexico. Last week the store in the old palace became the 416th link in the Walgreen drug chain. In its first venture outside the U.S., Walgreen's paid $2,500,000 to Ohio-born Frank Sanborn, 76, for the drugstore he founded 43 years ago with...
...detail where it would have room to grow and impress itself on the eye. Light was all-important in his best works; he fixed its color and quality precisely enough to show the weather and the time of day. But the light said even more: he made it a link between people and landscapes. In paintings like Saint Francis (see cut), the painted light seems to diffuse the saint's own ecstasy...
...expects to save for Europe). For the first time since war's outbreak nipped off commercial traffic, six British ships this summer will dock at Churchill in ice-free August and September to pick up the wheat. The $13,263,000 port, with its $32,638,000 rail link to The Pas, Manitoba, was built to save the prairies 1,000 miles on the water haul of wheat to Europe. So far, the money has been largely a waste...
...President Félix Gouin's state luncheon, Ernie Bevin tried to link the nations with a "peace cocktail": one-half English gin, one-quarter Russian vodka and one-quarter French vermouth. Gastronomically, at least, things were vastly improved: Gouin's guests ate homard parisienne, poularde du Mans à la broche, pommes noisettes, asperges de Lauris-sauce mousseline, fromages, parfait Grand Marnier, mignardises, accompanied by white Burgundy, red Bordeaux, champagne, coffee, . Armagnac, Benedictine and Cointreau...
Empty Glory. Lord Alexander would be a "Governor" of Canada in name only. The job had glory but no authority. Socially, he would link Canada to the Mother Country, but politically he would be a nonentity. He would have to present himself, smiling, at all sorts of functions. He would entertain and be entertained. He would have to show interest in every form of public activity, from a cornerstone-laying to a charity bazaar. He would open sessions of Parliament, and sign bills. He would have ample time for sightseeing around the country, and would live in grand style...