Word: milos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statue of Venus de Milo was tried for nudity in Mannheim, Germany, and sentenced to prison...
...rest was routine: shrewd Milo J. Warner, Toledo attorney, was elected National Commander to succeed Detroit's Raymond Kelly; 600 men worked overtime in the rain, cleaning 210 tons of assorted parade debris off the streets; the last drunk was put on the last train. . . . All week no one had asked: "Where's Elmer?" Elmer, symbol of what the Legion was, even a year ago, had gone the way of all flesh...
...secret was it that unofficial U. S. promises of economic aid had much to do with swinging other countries into line behind the Hull program. Back of the diplomatic front in Havana had worked sever al men who held the strings of the U. S. moneybags: President Milo Randolph Perkins of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., Earl N. Bressman, economic adviser to Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace, young Paul H. Nitze, adviser to President Roosevelt's $10,000-a-year cartelman, James Vincent Forrestal...
...pawn, a dean can check, sometimes stalemate a bishop. Bishop Manning, a High Churchman, and his Low-Church dean, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, frequently checked each other.* In 1929, Dean Robbins resigned, was succeeded by the Very Rev. Milo Hudson Gates, benevolent but bumbling. Last November Dean Gates died...
...began as plain Jessie Dermot, a Maine sea captain's daughter. She changed her name, and in 1890, when she was 19, made her stage debut. Ten years later she was the toast of Manhattan-in Ethel Barrymore's phrase, "a Venus de Milo with arms." Fifteen years later she was hobnobbing with Edward VII at Marienbad. Twenty years later, divorced from many-wived Actor Nat Goodwin, she was entertaining all England in her country house near London. After the war she built a $350,000 chateau at Juan-les-Pins, there entertained all Europe...