Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The inevitable result of this failure of American democracy is now becoming apparent at this crisis of the war. Shortages, deadly shortages, are now looming up." The House, Mr. Stimson noted, rose to the occasion by passing the May-Bailey bill. But now-
Like the rubber billiard cue and the collapsible bicycle, the word Peoria has always been good for a laugh in vaudeville. Generations of hoofers and comedians used it to epitomize U.S. hick towns. But though Peoria, Ill. lies in the corn belt, it is a pretty big town (pop. 105...
For 20 years big, jovial, redheaded Paul Tasse, 56, has been the talkative boss barber in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier barbershop. Now he and his wife were celebrating 35 years of marriage. Routhier School's hall was rented for the occasion and bedecked with barber poles. Prime Minister...
The servants in Thurber's world are never servants one can deal with reasonably. They are agents of the devil, users of abracadabra, alarming in their slightest gesture. "They are here with the reeves," said Delia, his colored maid. "The lawn is full of fletchers," she announced on another...
If you don't care for Chopin, there is Merle Oberon, although as the female lead she does not quite rise to the occasion, and leaves you feeling somehow that perhaps Botte Davis would have been a happier choice in the casting. She is still as cold and beautiful as...