Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, in 1902. In 1910, a proposal was made to include the names of the University's Confederate dead beside those of the fallen "Boys in Blue." The suggestion began a violent row among alumni. Boston newspapers and the Alumni News were deluged with mail, mostly opposing the plan. The Cambridge Granddaughters of the American Revolution denounced the idea as an "insult to the founders of the building," and the matter was left unsettled...
...sign appeared last week on the long mail-sorting tables in the executive office building next door to the White House. It was labeled "Clark." Under it piled the blizzard of communications to the White House about Harry Truman's nomination of General Mark Clark as the first U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican.* By week's end 21,000 letters and telegrams had arrived, the biggest and most clamorous bag of mail delivered to the White House on any issue in recent years, except the firing of Douglas MacArthur. Score: 6 to 1 against the Clark nomination...
...goodness ... I got a 42nd Street Madame Butterfly. I hoped for a new leading man to rival Ezio Pinza. I got Wilbur Evans. . . an old uncle with the fire gone out. . . Only a moderately enchanting evening. People will say I'm in love . . . with Oklahoma!" The Daily Mail's Cecil Wilson thought the plot moved too slowly. Said he: "It seemed to be more like South Soporific." Yet the critics, despite their reservations, were quick to admit that South Pacific seemed destined to enchant Londoners almost indefinitely...
Success in landing a good job depends more on initiative and drive than on aptitude, Newby emphasized. He warned that students planning to take the Civil Service Junior Management Assistant examinations must mail their applications in to Washington before November 13. Very few of these J.M.A. positions will be draft-deferable...
England and the Continent for her health. She wrote him once a day, sometimes twice, and with her umbilical dependence on mail, she got panicky at the slightest lapse in his replies. "Try to send me letters often or cards or papers from the office-anything. If I were there, you'd spend ten minutes with me. Give me those ten minutes here. Help me ... I am tired. I can't always write or work or read. Then I have nothing but darkness . . . The weather is perfect hell: the sea roars: it's never, never quiet...