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Word: mc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nameless, irrational fear which is being artificially induced by irresponsible newspapers and Washington politicians is causing a gradual disappearance of civil liberties in this country, according to writer Carey Mc Williams, speaker at a Channing Foundation lecture Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mc Williams Hits Loss of Freedom | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...year-old O'Brady is almost a Parisian. She arrived in Paris ten years ago, and modified her name because, she said, the "Mc" was hard for Frenchmen to pronounce. She combed the Seine bookstalls for 19th Century prints, and painted neat, nicely detailed oils that looked rather 19th Century. When the Nazis put her in a concentration camp, she turned to drawing her fellow prisoners, and learned delicate portraiture in line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: American in Paris | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Balkan Commission flew into loannina last week and, accompanied by reporters, started for the fighting zone in a pea-green bus. They were a strangely assorted crew. India's press representative was a small neat man in a midnight blue Homburg and black canvas overshoes. Mexican Captain Soto Mc-Nerney was resplendent in a green hunting costume, with fur collar, from Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch. The London Times man, clad in street clothes and carrying a neatly rolled umbrella, looked as though he had just stepped off a train at Paddington station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Siege | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...character perhaps, that goes against the general grain of inanity. All this is usually true, but Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer this week has made it all too clear that the exception proves the rule. For, no matter how hard you may try, you can't possibly find anything about "Desire Mc" that merits praise of any sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/7/1947 | See Source »

Warner Bement Berthoff, Worthington. Ohio; Warren Bruce Cheston, Rochestor, N. Y.; Stuart Hamilton Cleveland, Hallowell, Mc.; Robert Paul Davis, Dorchester; Christopher Dean, Boston; Marc George Dreyfus, Brooklyn; Robinson Oscar Everett, Durham, N. C.; Edward Alvin Ward Franklin, New York City; Victor Mainard Kimel. Allston; Richard Gordon Kleindienst, Winslow, Ariz.; Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hamden, Conn.; Philip Maurice Stern, New Orleans; John Wermer, New York City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wyzanski Urges Free Association as Phi Beta Kappa Elects 41 Members | 6/4/1947 | See Source »

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