Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace's English hosts were pleased but shaken. What could be made of a man who smeared marmalade on his rhubarb at breakfast? Then there was the broadcast over Britain's Government-owned BBC. Carefully his sponsors explained that the occasion was nonpolitical, calling for light pleasantries...
Budget Day was always a solemn occasion for a nation of shopkeepers. Now, with the budget become an instrument of social and economic policy affecting every Briton's standard of life, Budget Day is more solemn than ever.
Heaven watched over Dr. Coffin through India, the Philippines, China, Siam and Egypt. In 15 cities he delivered all or part of his series of five lectures on "The Self-Disclosure of God in History" -sometimes through interpreters, sometimes (as in Lahore) with History's riotous sound effects running...
In the paneled quiet of the Papal Cancelleria last fortnight, eager-eyed young priests leaned forward on elbows shiny from desk-reading; ascetic monks stretched thin necks from their lowered cowls. All sat raptly silent along the wainscoted wall, while speaker followed speaker at the highly-polished wooden reading stand...
This week London debutantes were rushing off to their dancing academies to learn the new Royal Minuet, prepared as "a tribute to H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth on the occasion of her 21st birthday." The first part (with dance partners side by side, hands crossed in front) was a sprightly gavotte; after...