Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the occasion of his 50th birthday, fat Franco last week had little to be happy about. His Falangist "Voice of Spain" radio has kept up violent attacks against the United Nations. The newspaper Ya (Now) editorialized: "By clear designation of God, Franco represents and directs the Spanish nation in...
Inside, at a lunch table set for two, sat North Carolina's stubborn, gnarled old Congressman Robert L. Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. For embarrassed Mr. Morgenthau, the lunch was doubtless a painful experience. For Mr. Doughton, it was a gala, never-to-be-forgotten occasion...
Next day, a few hours before the performance, Soprano Pons was still laid up. Soprano Wilkins managed to assemble a costume out of odds & ends. With the help of Stage Director Desire Defrere, she learned Lakmé's stage business. At 8:30, before a surprised Metropolitan audience, Marie...
* In an article on The Wartime Control of Venereal Disease in the A.M. A. Journal last week, Dr. John H. Stokes of Philadelphia, 'dean of U.S. venereal disease experts, began: "The venereal disease control field is a perpetual Christmas pudding and full of surprises. As Little Jack Horner (whom...
With its December issue, the "Guardian" suspends publication for the duration of the war. That decision, forced upon the editors by a shortage of manpower and of the time necessary for publishing a magazine, is an occasion both for regret and for respect. Any new excursion into the field of...