Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once in office Fibber Elliott kept his eye on Mrs. Lee and wondered what to do next. True to her campaign promises, the new mayor cleaned out Portland's basketball and hockey-betting hangouts, had her cops round up prostitutes, close Chinese gambling dives. She even sent her police out to pick up all the slot machines, including those in such private hangouts as the Portland Press Club, which made $50,000 profit on them last year...
...Between Mrs. Lee and Fibber Elliott, Portland & environs last week were as pure as the snow which had covered them in the two-week cold wave...
Last week in Washington, Agustin Merlo phoned the society to say that the Maria Eva Duarte de Péron Social Assistance Foundation of Argentina had been pleased to send enough clothes for 600 of the poor children of Washington. Told that the State Department had no objections, Mrs. Fay Vawters, co-director of the Society, said bravely: "We are going to accept [the gift] with all the grace that God in his mercy can bestow upon us." Evita had made the most of her chance...
Close-Mouthed Wives. While the presidents were in their counting house, their wives were in the parlor, discussing bread & honey. At a special session for the ladies, Mrs. Albin C. Bro, whose husband is president of Frances Shinier College, complained that a wife was nothing but a "janitor without portfolio ... At dinner parties, she must display the brilliance of an Einstein . . . Her basic rule in entertaining should be to do everything so well that all the trustees' wives will be proud of her-but not so well that her teas will run the risk of being distinguished . . . She should...
...black town car built for Mrs. Alfred P. Sloan Jr., wife of G.M.'s board chairman. It has interior fittings of silver, a chauffeur's umbrella, a pearl-grey clipped sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...