Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon, however, the happy converts stopped showing up. The Handas heard stories that the great Nagumo had collected large sums of money for altars from other families without delivering the sacred goods. This was too much for Mrs. Handa; her husband reluctantly agreed to drop the new religion...
Five weeks after he touched off a nationwide controversy by charging her with "anti-Catholic" bias, New York's Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman dropped in at Hyde Park to see Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for 45 minutes of friendly conversation and a cooling glass of iced...
...Portland, Ore., Mrs. Roosevelt's first great-grandchild, three-week-old Nicholas ("Little Bear") Seagraves put on a below-par performance at an old F.D.R. sport: posing for a horde of photographers. While parents "Sistie" (White House moppet during the early New Deal) and Van Seagraves beamed over his public sendoff, Nicholas snoozed through the flashbulbs...
...time he was 15, Stan had a steady girl (now Mrs. Stan Musial) who was the daughter of the neighborhood grocer and had some standing in the community as Donora High's star pitcher. He was also bat boy during the summer for the zinc works' semi-pro team, managed by Joe Barbao. One day, with his club shorthanded and his pitcher wilting before the Monessen (Pa.) sluggers, Joe sent Bat Boy Musial to the mound. The rest of the team thought it was a joke until Musial struck out a batter: he wound up by striking...
Last week the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announced that for two years one of its ichthyologists had been working on an explanation. Mrs. Marie Poland Fish dredged the Navy's submarine logs, made seasonal charts of the points where false enemy signals had been reported. Then she made charts showing where whales and other big marine mammals were at the same seasons. Each pair of charts matched...