Word: prestes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that "this is I"; But as he grows he gathers much And learns the use of "I" and "me". . . . Apparently we have arrived at a point where it is not necessary for the baby or anyone else to learn the difference between the nominative and accusative cases. ... Is this perhaps a Churchillian bit of undress in order to gain the approval of the masses? . . . Perhaps Churchill's "me" does even include...
Married. Mervyn LeRoy, 45, whose cigarish direction has turned out many a garish cinemoneymaker (Little Caesar, Tugboat Annie, Wizard of Oz); and Kathryn Prest Byfield Spiegel, 41, Chicago socialite; both for the third time; in Bel-Air, California...