Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire hotel was bent on pleasing Winston Churchill. Tall, white-haired Lord Hacking, former chairman of the Conservative Party, no common man himself, found that out when he rang for the elevator. An immaculate figure in his perfectly cut dinner jacket, he stood by the elevator gate and watched the car go up eight times, carrying only a waitress with heavy trays. Finally, the elevator boy shouted through the gate: "Sorry, sir, but it's Mr. Churchill's dinner...
Nellie, whose famed "Nellie Don" dresses last year rang up $12 million in sales in U.S. department stores, ordinarily wears them (retail price: $8.50 to $19.95) herself. But this time she wore a Hattie Carnegie creation ("I'll have to sell a lot of my own to pay for it"). The big occasion: Nellie's party to celebrate the opening of her new $1,000,000 factory. Said Nellie proudly: "It's the biggest garment factory in the world under one roof...
...bell rang. The boys rose, recited a prayer to Our Lady of Fatima, and quietly filed out. Every day, for nearly four years, they would be drilled in the fundamentals of the Roman Catholic faith...
Just 50 years ago, while cannon boomed and church bells rang, an 18-year-old girl with a sweet and melancholy face walked across the ancient square to Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk.* A purple mantle was on her shoulders, a diadem in her hair. She was Wilhelmina, Princess of Orange, about to become Queen of The Netherlands...
Last week the Taxicab Bureau, Inc. of New York reported that Manhattan cab drivers were no longer netting the $34 a day they need to pay for their cabs. Los Angeles' Yellow Cab Co., in the twelve months ended in July, rang up 63,547,-570 fare-miles, 9% more than in the preceding twelve-month period, but lost money because of an 8½% rise in costs...