Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Danish-born master, Henrik Kurt Carlsen, 37, was obliged to conn her down the harbor by radar. There was nasty weather outside, and she creaked and complained as she rolled down past Dover and through the English Channel, heavy with a cargo of coffee beans, antique furniture, automobiles, U.S. mail and Rotterdam pig iron...
...pals. Palship sometimes ripened into marriage. Lecturing in Tulsa once, Editor Norman Cousins was joyfully kissed by a young woman who gurgled that she had met her husband through a Saturday Review Personal; he had lived only four blocks away all the time. One woman who asked for male mail and signed herself "Oil Widow," was deluged with 800-odd letters...
Engraved Invitations. For half an hour the questions kept flying, and Harold Stassen kept ducking. But two days later, a reporter pried some interesting information out of a close Stassen friend. Engraved invitations to the dinner at which Stassen made his public announcement last week were in the mail even before he talked to Eisenhower in Paris. When Stassen called on Ike, said the friend, the general used his widely known device for preventing political complications. He called in an aide to listen to every word that was said...
Before the trip's survivors finally become mail-order brides in a scene of titillating comic hokum, they endure an exhaustive series of acts of God, man and MGM: storms, accidents, Indian attacks, childbirth, rape, dissension, the rigors of the Rockies and the heat of Death Valley. The passengers themselves are just as varied e.g., a French girl (Denise Dareel), who puts a respectable front on a disreputable past; a salty New Englander (Hope Emerson), who spouts seafaring lingo; a frail, pregnant schoolteacher (Beverly Dennis); a muleskinning crack shot (Lenore Lonergan); an Italian immigrant (Renata Vanni) with a nine...
...Hambletonian,* ran away with a big show of Royal Academy masterpieces. Alongside the drawing-room elegance of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stubbs's picture of two grooms rubbing down the champion seemed as pleasantly direct and fresh as a breeze from green grass. Opined Daily Mail Critic Pierre Jeanneret: "The noblest picture of a horse ever done...