Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a little item in a recent issue of the "New Yorker," easily overlooked, but significant just the same. Seems that a friend of the publication had occasion to visit Boston to see his favorite physician about a case of ulcers. Well, our subject, arriving at South Station, forthwith...
Reported Dead. Lina Cavalieri, 69, beauteous, thrice-married soprano of Caruso's day; in an air raid on Florence, Italy. It was on the occasion of her profitable divorce from the late eccentric Robert Winthrop ("Sheriff Bob") Chanler that his late eccentric brother John Armstrong Chaloner sent him the...
On Aug. 1, 1914, a great crowd gathered in Munich to hear the reading of Germany's declaration of war. Years later, a face was discovered in a photograph of this occasion. Among the hundreds of faces was one which, "despite the conspicuous ordinariness of [its] features, seemed illumined...
But the Christian Beacon found the matter indicative of "a most deplorable and desperate condition" in the Navy. The Beacon's editor, the Rev. Carl Mc-Intire, took the occasion to wind up with a slap at Chief of Naval Chaplains Robert D. Workman, "who is a minister of...
>A rabbi reported: "On one occasion the 'mazooza' [a packet approximately four inches long, which contains a portion of the Scriptures and is nailed to the doorpost of the entrance to the congregation, and is regarded as a very sacred object] was found to be denied and smeared...