Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Baseball is over," said a Reuters teletypist to a U.N. staff member in a washroom at Flushing Meadows. "We are all making bets on who wins in the election, and on what ballot. Want to come into the pool?"
The Advantage of Detachment. During a hectic week in Manhattan, before he started on his flying trip across the country, Pandit Nehru got an official reception at New York's City Hall (which was being picketed by striking Sanitation Department workers), visited U.N., saw a stream of callers at...
When World War I broke out, no one responded more fervently to the cause of France than pretty, earnest Kathleen Burke of London. First she raised $4,000,000 for Allied hospitals, then she went to France as a war nurse, was wounded at Verdun, gassed at Valenciennes, and made...
The Silhouette. Ever since her coronation with George V in 1911, Britain's Mary had been keeping just such a wellpeeled eye on her relatives, her subjects and the empire, making sure that no one flagged his duty. Her rigidly towering silhouette in the last three decades has become...
At Marlborough House, Queen Mary's day begins promptly at 7:15 each morning. She dresses completely and punctiliously before breakfast alone in her dining room. At 9:30 she summons one of three noble Women of the Bedchamber who serve her in shifts of two weeks each, and...