Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the poor suffer most." In vain Haiti's Stephen Alexis argued that it was no use trying to suppress prostitution,, since, "as long as there are planets in the sky," there would also be prostitutes, and-at that, "of both sexes." France's amendment (if not Mrs. Warren's profession) was defeated...
...Cork the sympathetic Irish did what they could. Bustling, white-haired Mrs. Tom Barry cajoled bakers into giving free bread, and greengrocers into supplying fruits and vegetables. She collected old clothes, rushed an Estonian mother to a maternity ward just in time (twins), and browbeat the government into giving the refugees an unused army camp for their stay. Cork's taxi drivers even sacrificed good fares to take the penniless voyagers by the carload up to kiss the Blarney Stone...
Throughout India there is widespread administrative corruption and bumbling, especially in the provinces. Nepotism, an ancient Oriental custom, reaches everywhere ; as an example in the highest place, the Prime Minister's critics point to the elevation of his elder sister, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, first to the ambassadorship in Moscow, then in Washington...
...Mrs. Pandit has a patrician approach. It was a little time, after she arrived in Washington, before she discovered that she did not have full access to the White House and would have to deal with the State Department. Last week, asked by newsmen what her brother's visit might do for Indo-American relations, she snapped back: "The Prime Minister has not shared his mind with me, nor is it customary for a prime minister who desires to have secret talks to discuss them with his ambassador. And you can quote me on that...
...Mrs. Perle Mesta," reported the Luxembourg correspondent of the London Daily Mail, "is in a fair way to blunder a path into the hearts of the 300,000 people of this microscopic Grand Duchy . . . Impulsive, dictatorial, generous, fussy and friendly, Mrs. Mesta approached her job like the task of arranging a rather large tea-party complicated by the presence of some quaint foreigners . . . The people of Luxembourg are pleased as punch to have her here...