Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing concerning my son, the only boy that I have that can help me on the farm. I am unable to see, as I have only one good eye. . . I am farming 250 acres and milk 24 cows. If they take Oscar...
Rolling In High. On the road to Manila, the Jap was still fading backward faster than any U.S. optimist had dared to hope. Major General Oscar W. Griswold's XIV Corps swept ahead, the 37th (Ohio) Division under Major General Robert S. Beightler on the left, and the 40th under Major General Rapp Brush on the right. With its flank protected by the Buckeyes, the 40th rolled into Clark Field in time for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to announce its capture on his 65th birthday. With more than a dozen runways, Clark was the greatest air base...
Lord Alfred Douglas, 74, Victorian friend of Oscar Wilde, composer of Mayfairy verses, penned a warning to Winston Churchill: "I am writing ... as a dying man. ... I beg you to consider that if you let down the Poles, your own reputation . . . will be irretrievably damaged in the eyes of posterity...
...speech before the Harvard Liberal Union in the Lowell Junior Common Room Saturday, Oscar Schoenfeld, one of the labor leaders convicted in the Minneapolis sedition trials, urged the release of his colleagues and the abolition of the Smith Sedition Act under which they were convicted...
Joan Fontaine, wistful, heartwarming, Oscar-winning Hollywood tragedienne, gave notice that she was through with "tearjerker" roles (Rebecca, The Constant Nymph), would turn gay, beginning with her new picture, The Affairs of Susan. Said she: "I was the Sad Sack of the screen. . . . From now on . . . no more tears...