Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anna Dodge Dillman, who was left some $50,000,000 by her late automaking husband, Horace E. Dodge, and then married Broadway Actor Hugh Dillman (since become a noted Palm Beach host), finally sued him for divorce after 21 years of war & peace...
...fortnight ago Central's President Gustav Metzman called Young to ask if he could come and see Young at his winter home in Palm Beach. Neither Metzman nor Central's Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt had to be told that Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had become by far the largest single owner of Central's stock. C. & O.'s holdings, which were reported at 315,000 shares, were now up to 400,000, about 7% of all shares outstanding. Vanderbilt and Metzman went to Palm Beach...
...singers stop on a temporal dime, and without perceptible damage to the tempo of the rehearsal Woody throws in an anecdote about "Koussie" in a rough approximation of Koussevitzky's English. The atmosphere is always spirited, though not always so gay. When he uses his fist instead of his palm on the desk, everyone sits up and gives the best...
...Alternative. From the sands of Palm Beach, the New York Times's Arthur Krock reported the uneasiness of a group of men with whom he talked one night. Among them were Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime ambassador to Great Britain, and Bernard Baruch. They saw a U.S. foreign policy leading to prodigal spending, national bankruptcy and destruction of the very democratic system which the policy sought to protect. Kennedy doubted that such investments as Truman recommended would ever succeed in stopping Communism's spread. The poverty-stricken peoples of the world, he thought, were bound to try out Communism...
...although they know well the little men with their pink, staring eyes, toothless mouths and flame-red beards, avert their eyes when they feel a chickcharney near by, for if you bump into one face to face your only hope is to press thumb and little finger into your palm and hold up the other three fingers. Then the chickcharney may take you for a comrade; he himself has only three fingers or three toes on each limb...