Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble started back in 1940, when a Catholic-dominated school board voted 3-2 to incorporate the St. Margaret-Mary Parochial School into the public-school system, entitling it to state support. They changed the school's name to the Grace Avenue School, ordered rent paid to the parish for the building, and put St. Margaret-Mary's eight teacher-nuns on the public payroll. The school stayed Catholic; its pupils went to class half an hour early every day for religious instruction...
...three pro-Catholic members were voted out of power in 1942 and the school lost out on public funds. But when the Catholics returned to power in January 1946, St. Margaret-Mary again became the tax-supported Grace Avenue School. A non-Catholic taxpayer filed suit, accusing the board of violating the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but the case has never been heard...
...delicate combination of the two M's, marriage and murder, evidently has not yet been quenched. Bouncing back after "The Two Mrs. Carrolls," "Monsicur Verdoux," and a number of Grade B blood-curdlers, our ready producers have served up a Bluebeard in petticoats this time. Margaret Lockwood, sultry as an English actress could ever be, glides through the urbane intricacies and mad histrionics of "Bedelia" with murder in her heart and sex in "her soft white arms." Though the denouement is overlong and overplayed, the picture is saved by its tightly-constructed plot, which has not an irrelevant word...
...cool glass panes of the Pepsi-Cola United Nations Center, an underpublicized celebrity was speaking on international friendship. It was Lidiya Gromyko, the diplomat's wife, appearing on the 21st of a series of ABC broadcasts on United Nations First Ladies. The interviewer: Alma Kitchell, a lesser Mary Margaret McBride. The broadcast was conceived in the widespread, well-meaning conviction (shared by the more thoughtful teenagers, the more optimistic cocktail partygoers and UNESCO) that a thorough exchange of information is the shortest route to mutual understanding between the U.S. people and the Government of Russia. The exchange...
Officially, that was all there was to the state visit. The Trumans had dinner quietly that night with Mackenzie King, while daughter Margaret sang solos for the 24 guests at an Embassy party and chimed in as the group sang Down by the Old Mill Stream. About 11 o'clock, Harry Truman joined the party. The President played a polka, Paderewski's Minuet in G, part of a Mozart sonata and some waltzes...