Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quebec City, Premier Maurice Duplessis got a gift from an admirer: the Grand Cross of the Order of the Liberator San Martin from Argentina's President Juan Domingo Peron...
...setting up shop (they pay $35 a year for a stall, plus 10? for each day they actually use it). Gene backed up to the curb and began to arrange the vegetables and fruit on packing boxes, along the running board, and on the tailboard. When all was in order, he left Winnifred in charge and went to a nearby lunchroom for a belated breakfast (pork chop, pineapple pie, coffee with plenty of sugar). His wife went to eat later...
...Great. Unruffled, Mae was putting on a good act in court, with the prosecution lawyers as her straight men. What was her first literary effort? "Sex," she said, deadpan. Why couldn't she remember the sequence of Catherine's 300 lovers? "I can't remember the order. No woman could." Well, why didn't she put all the lovers in the play? "Look," she replied, "I did the best I could in a couple of hours' entertainment. That many men would just clutter up the stage." The judge had to warn the audience...
...used to do a big mail-order business in pictures, painting just what the customers asked for, but now that her prices have skyrocketed she gets fewer orders. Her early work was framed in old mirror and picture frames that friends found for her in their attics. "But now they take them without frames. I don't like that. It's like sending my children out with ragged dresses on 'em. I like to see 'em dressed before they...
...BUDAPEST, Bishop Imre Revesz, head of the Hungarian Calvinist Church, advised Calvinist ministers to accept Hungary's Communist regime; he expressed "anxiety" because "most of my fellow ministers do not yet know or do not want to recognize that the old order of society and economy . . . will not come back...