Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bess Truman once more gladdened the hearts of the temperance people by turning down a glass of wine, proffered by amateur waitress Congresswoman Jessie Sumner. (No prohibitionist, Mrs. T. just doesn't like the taste of the stuff.) Occasion: the monthly luncheon of her Spanish teacher's class...
Robert Moses, New York's panjandrum Park Commissioner, seized the occasion of the National Institute of Social Sciences' annual dinner to reel off impacted phrases until the gunpowder ran out the heels of his boots-his favorite hobby. "I have learned not to run up a high temperature...
Grace Moore was goggleworthy herself in a photo that reached the U.S. from Rome last week (see cut). Occasion for the bubbly blonde soprano's somber wrap-up : an audience with Pope Pius XII. The onetime Baptist choir singer from Jellico, Tenn. had conversion on her mind.
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So Mr. King was going-to England, and later to Paris, for about two months. Gravely, he promised the Commons to "refrain from committing [Canada] in a manner that is likely to occasion embarrassment. ... I am not one of those who pretends to speak for the entire Cabinet without . . . conferring...