Word: quaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lady is prim, pretty Annie Morgan (Loretta Young), Quaker schoolma'am, who manages to ogle a choice lot out of Steve Lewis (Robert Preston), a lazy lawyer auctioning off land for Jim Cork (Edward Arnold), local tyrant, political boss, saloon keeper in the frontier town of Laraville...
Guest speaker at the meeting will be Edward Miller, secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization. Gerald F. Else '29, Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, will preside...
Staving off a dangerous Quaker scoring threat in the last minutes of play, the Crimson basketball five nipped out bottom-place Pennsylvania 40 to 39 before a small crowd last night in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...unite into a body called The Coordinating Council for French Relief, with headquarters in Manhattan's French Chamber of Commerce, of which Pierre Carder is president. Most of this relief is distributed through The American Friends Service Committee, which is the only organization with representatives in France. The Quaker Committee has been distributing about $50,000 worth of food, clothing and medical supplies a month in Occupied and Unoccupied France...
Ginger Rogers clinched her stardom (and won a well-deserved Oscar) by the finest female acting of the year in her role of a spirited Irish girl from the far side of the tracks in Philadelphia. Madly in love with a Quaker aristocrat, Kitty finds that they can be happy anywhere except in the City of Brotherly Love--but the ties of birth and position hold her husband home and create a barrier between them. So Kitty goes out on her own, has a divorce and a baby, meets young doctor James Craig who offers her marriage and security. Then...