Word: posted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Socially, the concert was dazzling. The hall, for the first time this season, was a sellout. But Washington critics were tougher than any others have been with the President's daughter. "Most disappointing," said the Post. Said the Daily News: "Margaret's not equipped for serious concert work." Next day, interviewed on the radio by Secretary of the Treasury Snyder's daughter, Drucie, Margaret Truman reported: "Poor Daddy was sitting there quite nervous." But after the first few numbers, she said, he calmed down and started beaming...
Alberto Bellardi Ricci, Italian minister to Stockholm, was about to take his new post as full-fledged ambassador to Chile. He was a kind, popular diplomat and sorry to leave his Swedish friends. "However," he said, "I shall return." On Christmas Day, in high spirits, he gave a farewell party in the legation's sumptuous dining room. Maria, the maid, brought in a letter. Legation Secretary Marquis Gian Gaspari Cittadini-Cesi looked at the disjointed scrawlings. "This man is mad," he told Ricci. "You should not receive...
Neither printers nor publishers wanted a strike, but Denver's local 49 of the International Typographical Union did want to keep the closed shop. And the Post, Rocky Mountain News and Catholic Register could not agree to that without violating the Taft-Hartley...
...works of 32-year-old Artist Koerner, who served in the U.S. Army and later with the U.S. Military Government in Berlin, reminded critics of the post-World War I satires of Germany's George Grosz, but, says Koerner, "there's a difference: I do not accuse." One picture in his Berlin show, My Parents, was more than an accusation; it was a memorial portrait of his parents, painted in the Vienna woods, with their backs turned. (They had died in a Nazi concentration camp.) That was a picture which Europeans could best understand...
...York Journal-American, Chicago Herald-American, Milwaukee Sentinel, Baltimore News-Post, Los Angeles Examiner, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, San Francisco Examiner...