Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manner of the purchase was indicative of Nate Cummings' procedure. Last February he took a vacation in Palm Springs and one day rode horseback so hard that he developed a sore, which turned into a carbuncle. Still laid up (when he returned to Chicago), he had to miss a cocktail party given by Horace Armstrong, president of rival Reid, Murdoch. Afterward, when Armstrong called to tell him about the party, Nate asked, "I don't suppose you'd be interested in selling Reid, Murdoch...
Divorced. By Christine Cromwell White, 23, only daughter of onetime Diplomat James (Jimmy) H. R. Cromwell, ex-husband of Doris Duke: Frederic Putnam White, 25, Boston socialite, now a Navy boatswain's mate; after four years of marriage (two children); in West Palm Beach, Fla. To get her uncontested divorce, Dodge Auto Heiress White gave her mother-in-law custody of the two children, agreed to toss in a couple of $1,000,000 trust funds for them...
Divorced. By Ailsa Mellon Bruce, fortyish, shy, only daughter of the late multimillionaire Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: Colonel David K. E. Bruce, 47, handsome socialite; after 19 years of marriage; in Palm Beach...
...bird-cage home of plaited bamboo and braided palm-fronds on the weatherside beach of a coral lagoon, I commence reading-and on I read from the red hour of sunrise to hot, windless midday, through a breeze-freshened afternoon to a rose and lilac sunset, into the brief purple twilight and, lamp flame at full height, right up to when the Southern Cross is directly overhead at midnight. Day after day, night after night-the schedule never varies...
...House of Lords, five days before Palm Sunday, up rose the Church of England's foremost humanitarian, the Archbishop of York. Said the gentle, 70-year-old Most Reverend and Right Honorable Cyril Forster Garbett: there should be no sensational public trials of "the master war criminals Hitler and Himmler and their gang who have corrupted Germany and ordered these hideous crimes"; as soon as their identity is established "those who catch them should at once put them to death...