Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Margaret Truman's "vacation" back home in Missouri turned out to be a summer of heavy voice study. Radio and concert work had been offered her, but she was setting her sights higher: opera. Bess Wallace Truman's daughter had already picked a stage name with the idea of not trading on her father's reputation, though doubtless nobody would be fooled. The posters would advertise "Margaret Wallace...
...Meetings will be open to all comers; however, frequent attenders will be asked to join the club," Secretary Margaret Drolette said yesterday, adding that payment of $3.00 annual dues entitles one to participate in the election of officers, to partake of the foaming ale, and to attend the meetings with a clear conscience...
...canard. It was getting around that ex-Wife Barbara had offered him $1 million to give up his part-time custody of their ten-year-old son, Lance. Gritted father: "I would rather lose my right leg. . . ." Then he subsided again into Newport with Wife No. 2, the former Margaret Drayton, granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor...
Often only those people who have been personally devoted to a leader will undertake to write his or her biography. Certainly Margaret Cole, who worked with Beatrice Webb in the Fabian Society, is too closely connected with the British Socialist movement to maintain even an aura of scholarly objectivity. The author seems more concerned with justifying each particular action of her idol than with evaluating her various campaigns in the light of her announced objectives. This, plus a rather careless style, makes "Beatrice Webb" more of an expanded pamphlet than a work of research, but Mrs. Cole's observations...
This transformation is difficult to explain, and Margaret Cole not only avoids it, but seems unaware of the challenge it presents to the belief that socialism can be achieved peacefully within the framework of political democracy. The present British government would tend to substantiate Beatrice Webb's earlier theories, but it is still too early to evaluate the permanency of her contribution...