Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooklyn-born Comic Danny Kaye, currently wowing the British at the London Palladium, took time off for tea in Ayot St. Lawrence with Bernard Shaw. "It was a very happy and spontaneously merry occasion," reported Shaw's author-neighbor Stephen Winston (Days with Bernard Shaw). "They put on a joint act . . . there was no conversation . . . quite spontaneous and carried out in mime. Danny sat on the lawn looking whimsical and picking daisies. And G.B.S. strode up to him and slapped him merrily on the back . . ." Said Showman Kaye to Showman Shaw: "I can quite see, G.B.S., why you have...
...Pope, in his speech to the employers, laid quite a different emphasis. "Why not," he asked, "while there is still time, put things in order ... in a way to secure the . . . [employer] against unjust suspicion and the . . . [workers] against illusions which will not be long in becoming social perils...
Aunt Anita, a sweet and shrewd old lady who wears fussy, turn-of-the-century clothes, has given away something like $10 million in her time. She put $2,000,000 into Chicago's progressive Frances W. Parker School, sent $100 to the family of each of the in victims of the 1947 Centralia mine disaster, tossed some $50,000 into Wallace's campaign collection plates last fall, and donated a round $1,000,000 to endow the new, leftist Foundation for World Government...
...World. Ted Thackrey met Mrs. Elaine for the first time about three weeks ago, through a mutual friend who intended to put up half the money for the Compass. When the friend backed out, Mrs. Elaine coolly agreed to put up both halves. For around $2,000,000 she will get all the preferred stock; Thackrey will hold 51% of the common, and complete control...
...Charley just as he would have wanted. When he died at 80, three weeks ago, only a handful of people bothered to go to his funeral, but by last week the whole town was talking about him. He had left an estate of $100,000, and he had put it all in trust for the kids. From now on, on the last day before Easter holidays and again before Christmas, every boy & girl at John Kerr will get a $5 bill from Charley's estate to spend as he wishes. Old Winchesterites might soon forget Peddler Charles Henry...