Word: pious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pool table. By the time Floogle learns that one of the chairs contains a considerable stash of cash, he is heavily in debt and under suspicion of murdering the uncle, and the chairs are all over town. His search for them involves visits to Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum (Minerva PioUs. very cute in her screen debut), to Jack Benny, and to a gay-nineties cafe where Allen joins in expensive quartetting with Don Ameche, Rudy Vallee, and Victor Moore...
Argentina had declared war on the Axis. Now, by underwriting the obligations (and pious hopes) of the Act of Chapultepec, she made herself internationally respectable, diplomatically recognizable...
Glittering Mr. Johnston smoothly turned away any suggestions that the ultimate aim of the new board is to replace the War Labor Board. But both labor & management were well aware that the group, if it is to be anything more than a sounding board for pious platitudes, will have to take a hand in the shaping of any national labor policy by Congress...
Died. Maximino Avila Camacho, 52, Mexican Secretary of Communications and strident, notorious elder brother of Mexico's pious President; of a heart attack; in Puebla, Mexico. The death of the aggressively ambitious onetime cowhand, bullfighter and revolutionary left few sincere mourners among his countrymen...
Lieut. General Sir William George Shedden ("Old Dob Dob") Dobbie, 66, pious, pink-cheeked, former Governor and Commander of the bomb-torn Island of Malta (until he retired in 1942), arrived in the U.S. to begin a series of lectures sponsored by the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Crusading Puritan Dobbie hopes to cement U.S.-British relations...