Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Mr. Bernard Shaw," wrote the recently widowed 87-year-old playwright to the Irish Times, "has received such a prodigious mass of letters on the occasion of his wife's death that though he has read and valued them all, any attempt to acknowledge them individually is beyond his...
For scandal-scarred Jim Curley this is indictment No. 3. At the age of 29, while a Boston alderman, Curley was sentenced to 60 days for taking a letter carrier's examination under another man's name. After he had thrice been Mayor of Boston, the State Supreme...
No sooner had Frank Gannett's conference blown over than Bertie McCormick started up. The occasion: a "Constitution Day" dinner at Chicago's Palmer House. The guests: some 1,000 McCormick-variety Republicans. The principal speaker: the Colonel. His topic: the excellence of Illinois (which he sometimes attributes...
In the title story (which last year won her the O. Henry Memorial Prize) an oaf, assisted by a doctor, four children and an assortment of primitives, drags a river for his supposedly drowned wife, and is made (he occasion for creating some wonderfully suggestive images of the whole of...
The first main job for the new board, therefore, is likely to be the Navy Day review to be held at 1100 on October 27. All schools except the V-12 Unit, which will be on leave, will form the brigade on this occasion, when Rear Admiral Theobald will again...