Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waiting at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, Mrs. Hoffmann talked to another mother whose 18-month-old boy had the same eye disease. "I listened as she told me that there just wasn't any hope for her boy. 'The doctors are going to operate on him but I know it won't do any good,' she told me. There's nothing anyone can do for him.' Then she said the words that shocked me terribly and at the same time made me feel sorry for her. 'Sometimes,' she told...
...behalf of the National Highway Users Conference, Mrs. Emily Post, doyenne of U.S. manners, wrote a 46-page treatise called "Motor Manners." Sample mannerisms: "... A gentleman will no more cheat a red light or a stop sign than he would cheat in a game of cards. A courteous lady will not 'scold' others raucously with her automobile horn any more than she would act like a 'fishwife' at a party...
...Mrs. Wendell L Willkie, 58, and son Philip, 29, Indiana state legislator, were badly shaken up and bruised when their car, headed home to Rushville from Washington, skidded on a wet highway near Fairview, Ohio and overturned...
...principal motive') modified the equipment situation somewhat . . . There would be a few days in Nairobi where dinner dress would be needed . . . Rather than take a chance on finding in the African shops an exploring costume in her size (almost no ready-made clothes anticipate her doll-like proportions)," Mrs. Adrian bought them in Manhattan. For the trip up river she wore "an oyster-white silk Shantung suit made (where better?) in her husband's workrooms; and as an alternate for the skirt a pair of Shantung slacks . . ." Mr. Adrian's equipment for the trek: "a picnic hamper...
Late last year, London Records found its German-language recording selling like hot cakes, decided it would sell even faster in English. Lyricist Malia Rosa, who is also May Singhi ("Ukulele Lady") Breen and Mrs. Peter (Deep Purple) De Rose, thought up simple words to match the simple tune ("Forever and ever, My heart will be true," etc.). Gracie Fields recorded it first, then Dinah Shore, Perry Como and Margaret Whiting, and within days it was a hit. Malia Rosa's explanation: "It's down to earth; it reeks with sincerity...