Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mrs. Josephine Wilson, social director of the Summer School, announced that there will be dances in the Union every Friday night, and teas every Wednesday evening in the Yard, to be followed by free tea dances in the Union...
...Push from the Publisher. Mrs. Roosevelt found there were new worries. The President was soon so preoccupied with national problems, said she, that he had scant time for the troubles of his sons. They discovered, to their resentment, that even they had to make appointments to see him. One of them who went to his father for advice was startled to have the President hand him a paper and say: "This is a most important document. I should like to have your opinion on it." The indignant son told his mother: "Never again will I try to talk to father...
...predecessor, Bullivant and the Lambs (TIME, July 19). It has many more tedious and barren stretches, but they are frequently relieved by Novelist Compton-Burnett's most characteristically brilliant qualities. There are flashes of darting spite ("I hope I am not disturbing you at your luncheon, Mrs. Cassidy." "Thank you, Miss James. It is so kind to cling to the hope") and devastating responses to thoughtless queries ("Why should not school be an open and natural life, like any other?" "Like what other?" said Mr. Firebrace). There are also numerous succinct summings-up whose blandness is more savage than...
Surprise. In Cleveland, after Mrs. Frances Weber woke her husband with a shout, "I just had a baby!", Mr. Weber said he knew his wife had gained some weight recently, but "we just thought she needed a little exercise...
Robin Hoodwinked. In Chicago, confronted by an armed robber, Mrs. Josephine Halper burst into tears and wailed: "I need bread and he asks me for money!", wheedled a dollar from the outlaw and gave it to her son who promptly lost it in a bingo game...