Word: mineola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Book Worm. In Mineola, N.Y., Mrs. Philip Shannon Jr. got temporary alimony and custody of the children when she testified that her husband had made her read Karl Marx...
...over the face of the earth to bring back dead bodies to this country [TIME, April 14] seems to me not only wantonly wasteful but unchristian as well. Do the sweethearts, wives and mothers of these dead have to have their loved ones' bodies in Forest Lawn or Mineola cemetery in order to preserve their memory? Better to spend the money and effort in extending help to the still living in the war-ravished countries, as a living memorial to those men, and thus make future wars such as they died in less probable...
Tooth & Nail. In Mineola, L.I., Walter Szymkow, booked as an auto theft suspect, pulled a four-inch nail out of the station floor, bent it between his teeth, broke a brick in two, pulverized it with his fist, excused his actions by explaining that he was embarrassed, never having been arrested before...
...Many new houses, built for veterans, were falling apart. They had been put up with green lumber, ersatz plumbing and slapped together by careless carpentry. Worst gripes came from Mineola, L.I., where walls cracked, cellars flooded, rafters warped. The cellar of one $9,950 Mineola house was flooded daily by plumbing waste...
Died. Edward B. Marks, 80, publisher (Edward B. Marks Music Corp.) of some 20,000 songs including barbershop favorites and the urbane ballads of Jerome Kern, Sigmund Romberg, Rodgers & Hart: of pneumonia; in Mineola, L.I. While song-plugging in Manhattan saloons during the gaslit '90s, he saw a customer paw a tearful waitress, whipped out a pencil, wrote straight from life My Mother Was a Lady...