Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same synod, Rabbi Gershom also decreed it unlawful to open letters addressed to others. This led to the custom, prevalent in Eastern Europe until recently, of marking letters sent by messenger with the initials BHDRG, an abbreviation for "Beherem de Rabbenu Gershom-under the ban of Rabbi Gershom...
Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini (Paisan, Open City), separated from his wife and son since 1942, told his lawyers to file divorce papers. He is still on the island of Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian, where he is directing a movie about life among the fishermen, featuring an amateur cast and starring Ingrid Bergman...
Fair Shake? Last week, in London, Rudolf Bing thought over his new job of running the world's greatest opera house-an institution which went $233,000 into the red in 1947-48, and almost failed to open last season at all, until its unionized workers unwillingly agreed to pass up raises. In his forthright way, Bing had lots of confidence. The job had "just blown up suddenly," he said, but it apparently was not too much of a surprise: "For 15 years, I have known that some day I would reach that goal...
...Hermitage Country Club. In between times, Sam was warm enough to scoop up seven other prizes, boosting his winnings for the year to $12,610, tops in the trade. Unless something put the fire out he figured to have the biggest of all tournaments, this week's U.S. Open, at his mercy. And all because of a borrowed putter...
There the established stars and the survivors of 1,302 lesser golfers who spent last week qualifying* would fight it out in the U.S. Open, the tournament Sam Snead called "the daddy of them all." Whatever happened (in two other years he had fallen apart on the greens after having the big prize within his grasp), Sam was certain of one thing: Stan Curtis would never get that putter back...