Word: madeiras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew up in Pasadena, went to the Madeira School in Washington, then to Smith College, married a Manhattan attorney named Clyde Brown Jr., divorced him in Reno within a year...
Caviar and Thrillers. Reynolds was on the plane that brought Ambassadors Litvinoff and Steinhardt out of Russia. He picnicked with his companions on chicken legs, hard-boiled eggs, Madeira. He "borrowed a detective story from Mme. Litvinoff and read it while eating her lovely caviar sandwiches all the way from Kuibyshev to Teheran. Every fifteen minutes she'd say, 'Do you know who did it yet?' I would yell over the sound of the motors, 'No, and don't tell...
...earnings by 31%. But the average German worker's weekly wage (in 1936) was $6.29; and one in every five was dependent on the Winter Relief Fund, which is made up of workers' "voluntary" contributions. Real achievements: Strength-Through-Joy cruises by which a workman could visit Madeira for $25 round trip, or spend a week in the Bavarian Alps for $11; vast expansion of theater, opera, concerts, adult education...
Speed was the keynote. The delegates gathered at a luncheon. They churned into six kinds of meat, slushed through bowls of caviar, demolished huge mounds of cheese and butter, knocked down vodka, port and Madeira, wolfed dessert. Then, just in case they might feel sluggish, they drank Russian cocktails...
...Misled by a correspondent, TIME regrets implying that Mrs. Wing, headmistress of The Madeira School in Virginia, hurt her knee at Dr. Shaw's school, where he has substituted square dancing for football as an equally strenuous major sport (TIME, Sept...