Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oscar Titiev...
Iran. Last week the Council received a report from Teheran that the Red Army had withdrawn from Azerbaijan. Iran's Ambassador Hussein Ala wondered how thorough were the findings of his Government's investigating commission to Azerbaijan. Poland's Oscar Lange asked Ala: "Did the commission make its investigation from an airplane by telescope...
From all parts of the country the story was the same: Americans were drinking harder than ever. A movieland 1945 Oscar went to the portrayal of a drunk; the book from which the story was taken was a bestseller. In a new sourcebook, Contemporary Criminal Hygiene (240 pp.; Oakridge Press; $4), Psychiatrist Robert V. Seliger of Johns Hopkins and Psychotherapist Victoria Cranford, a coworker, reported that there are 600,000 chronic alcoholics in U.S. institutions and no one knows how many outside; 2,000,000 heavy drinkers; about 38,000,000 "social drinkers...
Sins of the Father. The scandal in 1864 did not involve the children. But many years later Oscar Wilde, too, had his day in court.* People then inevitably recalled Sir William's troubles, though by that time he had long been in his grave. Nowadays Sir William is generally remembered, when he is, because he happened to be Oscar's father, or because he was, as an outraged Victorian put it, a "pithecoid person of extraordinary sensuality." Victorian Doctor attempts to give him his due as a medical man and to show the sort of person he actually...
...mother," said Oscar Wilde later, "loved him very much, and [he] died with his heart full of gratitude and affection." Says Dr. Wilson: he had "only two faults-his bad temper and his mistresses...