Word: morning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago art dealer who first showed Frenchman Paul Chabas' September Morn (in 1913) was arrested. According to Police Sergeant Jeremiah O'Connor, the chilly nude in wading was "indacent and ought to be in the Art Institute." Instead, it wound up on calendars and candy boxes...
...soul-warming incident every now and then, especially when there's a big Fire Department turnout. Thus the enthusiasm of the occupants of Winthrop House knew no bounds yesterday when the grease on a kitchen stove caught fire in the small hours (seven o'clock, that is) of the morn...
...relations man finally got it away from him for mimeographing. The old man chatted with Harry Truman, showed off his knowledge of American history, made a creditable stab at reciting from memory Whittier's Barbara Frietchie: "Up from the meadows rich with corn, clear in the cool September morn. . . ." According to his custom, before dinner he rapidly downed five Scotch highballs...
During the war, U.S. commodity exchanges had little to do. Unlike World War I, when skyrocketing wheat and corn prices made millionaires in the pit from morn till midafternoon, the U.S. government controlled the big buying. It set ceilings on all important commodities except rye, made the once hectic exchanges as quiet as country stores. But traders squirmed under this cosy arrangement...
Died. Georg Kaiser, 67, German novelist and playwright (From Morn to Mid night), who was expelled by the Nazis in 1933 from the Prussian Academy of Art (along with Thomas Mann and Franz Werfel); in Ascona, Switzerland...