Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Money, Money, Money. "I just don't believe in love any more," said Dorothy. Her voice had the gently feminine tone of a bent gong. "I'm looking for just one thing-money, money, money." She hadn't expected to attract so much attention, and she hoped it wouldn't embarrass her parents (with whom her children live). She favored a "decent type" for a husband, someone "not too old." And in a hurry. She had enough money to last about a week...
...Dorothy was a trifle piqued over one incident. A woman called and told her that she, too, was a divorcee with two children and would Dorothy please send her any men she didn't want. "I told her," said Dorothy coldly, "to get her own man. I'm not running a matrimonial bureau...
...Yorkshireman Hewitson",'"Ah see a whole lot o' things that recall the visits which your Viking ancestors made to ma coontry many centuries ago. And y' know a lot o' your lads -refugees like-came over to us during t' war. Naow, Ah'm a dalesman (living in England's northern valleys) masen. Ah believe that Ah've got a whole lot o' your bluid in ma own veins, and think there's a whole lot of it too runnin' in t' veins...
Throughout the occupation, M. Sacha Guitry, garrulous, versatile luminary of the French stage, accepted so many Nazi cheers that his countrymen threw him in jail after the liberation. The French courts cleared him of the charge of collaboration. But as Guitry found out in Lyon last week, some people of the Resistance...
...party powwow, and the opportunity to cross-examine a priest delighted them. Asked one: "Now tell us the truth. Do you really believe the Pope is infallible?" Said the priest: "Yes, in matters of faith and morals, the Pope is infallible." But he continued: "I'm going to ask you a question, and I warn you to be careful of what you say. Do you believe that Stalin is infallible...