Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the war Kay came to the U.S., stayed in the WAC (in which she had been commissioned despite her British citizenship). She had already applied for U.S. citizenship. Demobilized last year, she now lives in Manhattan, is planning radio broadcasts and a two-year U.S. lecture tour...
When Reform Mayor Carter Harrison closed them up in 1911, the sisters had $1,000,000 in cash and a small fortune in furniture and fittings. They dropped the name Everleigh, called themselves Lester, and went to Manhattan...
...Haifa, Israeli security police hovered anxiously about the new mediator. From Stockholm, Countess Bernadotte spoke to her husband's aide by shortwave radio. Said she: "Give my best to Ralph Bunche. I know what he meant to my husband." Said Mrs. Bunche in Manhattan: "I feel very sad about this appointment ... I can't help but have fears for him as long as he's in that troublesome zone...
...paternity suit brought against Myron C. Taylor, venerable presidential envoy to the Vatican, was thrown out of court a second time, because the defendant was in Manhattan and the court was in Chicago. Mrs. Eunice Walterman, a Chicago housewife, had claimed that she was his illegitimate daughter...
...Manhattan, Joe Louis was having second thoughts. After he beat Jersey Joe Walcott in a slow-moving travesty last June, the aging (34) champ announced-to the relief of his fans and his mother-that he had fought his last fight. Now his agent, Sol Strauss, of the 20th Century Sporting Club, announced that Joe would defend his title for the 26th time next June -if the winner of the Joe Baksi-Ezzard Charles bout "comes through good." Said Joe's mother: "I feel awful...