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Word: margarets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the exhausting festivities in Rio, he and his family welcomed the rest. Mrs. Truman spent most of her time in their comfortable quarters in the admiral's island. Daughter Margaret, in white halter and skirt, sunned herself on the surrender deck (while sailors peered from behind gun mounts) and got in an occasional game of deck tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No. I Pollywog | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...kind of jape that Harry Truman thoroughly enjoys and he joined in with zest. Pollywog Truman cheerfully donned a baker's cap, saw to it that others in his entourage conformed to the prescribed pollywog costume of trousers, loud shirts and ties worn backward.* Margaret wore a shoe-length slicker and sou'wester, which made her look like a Morton Salt boy. She was told to mount watch for Davy Jones, who traditionally appears the day before crossing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No. I Pollywog | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...tough, blond Marine sergeant wearing enormous falsies and rope-yarn hair). As No. 1 Pollywog, Truman was first-but was let off easy. He was merely ordered to give his autograph to each member of Neptune's court, and to furnish his staff with Corona cigars forever. Margaret was directed to lead a group in Anchors Aweigh, which she did falteringly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No. I Pollywog | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Looking Backward. During his first speech, on the City Hall steps, the Prime Minister recalled that he was born "a stone's throw from here, if you have a strong throwing arm." He remembered that his second home was on Margaret Street. Said Mr. King: "I understand there is some kind of holy tabernacle there now-that may have been the influence of my early days." To some of the schoolchildren of Kitchener and neighboring Waterloo, he presented citizenship certificates. When eleven-year-old Marie Good came forward in a plaid skirt and jacket, the Prime Minister asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PRIME MINISTRY: Native's Return | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Married. John Francis Kieran, 55, radio's gnomelike Information, Please know-it-all; and Margaret Ford, 42, Sunday editor of the Boston Herald; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1944), she for the first; in Brookline, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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