Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pest Control. In Taunton, Mass., 63-year-old Maryann Bettencourt routed three armed housebreakers by threatening them with an insecticide...
...full bloom . . . The Yugoslav Communist Party is being put to sleep by rotten opportunistic theories of peaceful absorption of capitalist elements . . . This is nothing new. In Russia 40 years ago a faction of the Mensheviks proposed that the Marxist party be dissolved into a nonparty workers' mass organization. As is known, Lenin classified these Mensheviks as hellish opportunists...
...Thoreau Society of Concord, Mass. began a campaign for $30,000 to buy a house in which Authur Henry Thoreau wrote his journals and prepared his famed Walden-a work which expressed his contempt for costly, conventional houses...
That was just what publicity-wise Christian Dior had in mind. He had already obtained quarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, signed up a team of U.S. assistants. This fall he hopes to start mass-producing a line of about 90 dresses to wholesale in the U.S. at $59.75 and up. Though they will have "wing" and "cyclone" effects, the dresses will be a "conservative evolution" of his Paris models, designed with one eye on U.S. tastes and the other on the limitations of machine production...
What will U.S. art be like, say ten years hence? Last week the small but influential Addison Gallery at Andover, Mass, was supplying an answer of a sort...