Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mrs. Mary Sangenino, 52, of The Bronx, had troubles too. She got on the subway with a box of cookies and a brown paper bag containing her life savings-$12,500 in bills. Then she got so interested in a comic book that she left the bag behind when she got off at New Lots Avenue, Brooklyn. That was the last...
Juan and Evita Perón were waiting on the terrace when the Cadillac turned in at the presidential residence. Before U.S. Ambassador and Mrs. James Bruce could get out of the car, Evita's toy poodle hopped right into Mrs. Bruce...
...Mrs. Perle Mesto, promoted from Washington's reigning hostess to U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, sailed off to work with a shipboard farewell from 80 friends, including Mrs. Harry S. Truman and daughter Margaret, Chief Justice and Mrs. Fred M. Vinson and onetime Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde. Amid the orchids, champagne and caviar, someone asked: "How does one address you, Mrs. Mesta-as Your Excellency?" Beamed the new diplomatiste: "Just call me Perle...
...Woman's Christian Temperance Union opened its 75th annual meeting in Philadelphia, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, its president, paused while pinning up convention badges (see cut) to pin down just what had prompted U.S. concessions to the Russians at Yalta. Explained Mrs. Colvin: "American representatives wondered...how the Russians could consume such large quantities of vodka and keep sober, when it had an intoxicating effect upon the Americans. But we have learned since that Stalin and the Soviets outwit the representatives of other nations by plying them with vodka while the Russians drink water from vodka bottles...
...promulgate any rules." His wonder was shared by FCCommissioner Frieda B. Hennock. In her dissenting vote, Miss Hennock maintained that "without a specific mandate from Congress for us to curb the prevalence of this type of program, our action today is unwarranted." Even a contestant was heard from. Mrs. Elaine Smith of Dallas, recent winner on CBS' Winner Take All, pouted: "It's a shame the FCC should be so nasty as to try to stop all this nice entertainment...