Word: nell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shore ain't surprised," said lank, rawboned Mayfield Kothmann, 18, from Mason County, Texas, when his red-&-white Hereford, Lucky Boy II, was adjudged grand champion steer at the Exposition. Miss Clara Nell Lavender, 18, of Jefferson, Ga., had canned 4,976 pints of fruits, vegetables, juices, jams, jellies and pickles, thereby winning 4-H kudos. Declared healthiest 4-H specimens were "four strong boys and two comely girls" (Warren Cales, 18, Sandstone, W. Va.; Richard Crane, 17, Rushville, Ind.; Carlisle Klein, 18, Black River Falls, Wis.; Leslie Warrant, 16, Kasota, Minn.; Ruth Fitzenreiter, 16, Bel, La., and Joann...
...Franklin Roosevelt is a changeable, charming, warmhearted, gullible, formidable man. ". . . When crossed he is hard, stubborn, resourceful, relentless," Moley wrote to his sister Nell in 1932. ". . . He seems quite naturally warm and friendly . . . because he just enjoys the pleasant and engaging role, as a charming woman does. . . . The frightening aspect ... is F. D. R.'s great receptivity. So far as I know he makes no effort to check up on anything I or anyone else has told him. I wonder what would happen if we should selfishly try to put things over...
...Miss Hutchinson's School in Memphis, where Mrs. Nell Halliburton still teaches practical applied psychology, the only boy ever admitted as a pupil was Mrs. Halliburton's son Richard. Dick Halliburton grew up and went to Princeton, where he was the shy, retiring editor of a photography magazine. In 1921, the year he graduated, he climbed the Matterhorn, surveyed the world and set out on a career of self-conscious adventuring that few men would have had the energy or ambition to undertake...
Author, Author's maestro is Humorist Sidney Joseph Perelman (Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge), who manfully keeps gagging while a collection of fictioneers ad lib stories to fit mystery-tale situations contributed by listeners. Sample situation Why did Little Nell scorn Dick Goodfellow to marry Squire Sourpuss? Regular aides to Perelman are Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, a detectifiction team known as Ellery Queen. Guests have included Dorothy Parker, Carl Van Doren Heywood Broun, Rupert Hughes, Ruth McKenney, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alice Duer Miller, Henry F. Pringle. Impaired at first by talkiness and the occasional complete blankness of literary minds...
...cozy office in St. Martin's Lane, London, once saucy Nell Gwynn's bedroom, trooped sober-faced British corporation executives last week. Anxious to comply with the forthcoming Civil Defense Bill, which will require camouflage for factories and public utility works, they came to consult Mr. Frederic Stafford, art director of Stoll Theatres Corp., Ltd. Mr. Stafford heads a group of noted stage designers whose new business is to fool enemy bombers into thinking that a power plant is a church, or an airfield a picturesque village...