Word: personation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really happened? Nobody, including Countess Tolstoy, seemed to know. The next day the Countess mused dourly that the woman might have been a Red spy. And the case was complicated by the fact that Mathematics Teacher Samarin dramatically turned himself over to the FBI. This week no less a person than Russian Ambassador Panyushkin asked that Samarin be returned forthwith...
Quiz programs will be outlawed if a prize is awarded to any person "whose selection is dependent in any manner upon lot or chance," and if, as a condition of winning, the contestant 1) must furnish "any money or thing of value," or have in his possession a sponsor's product; 2) must be listening to or seeing over television the show in question; 3) must answer correctly a question to which either the answer or a clue (including the question itself) has been given on a previous broadcast, or 4) must write a letter or answer the telephone...
WHEN THIS YOU SEE REMEMBER ME GERTRUDE STEIN IN PERSON (247 pp.)-W. G. Rogers-Rinehart...
...contribution to art history, but no one will ever know for sure whether it corresponds to what Michelangelo had in mind. The master himself wrote four lines of poetry about the chapel-an answer to the poet who had praised his Night figure. His poem, speaking in the person of Night (and translated by John Addington Symonds...
...have forwarded your letters to an organization which is very active in helping to solve the problem of the displaced person: The United Service for New Americans, Inc. Another such organization is the Catholic Committee for Refugees, which was responsible for putting Farmer Rhinehart in touch with the Zielezinskis...