Word: rebecca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oldsters belatedly seeking theirs, with a scattering of professional writers. The weekly ran a literate section on English grammar and word usage, carefully recommended good books, had a steady circulation of 80,000. When it rejected a manuscript, it offered a detailed criticism. Among its regular contributors: Winston Churchill, Rebecca West, Arnold Bennett, Max Beerbohm, W. Somerset Maugham. During World War II, newsprint restrictions and the exodus to the services cut John O'London's circulation to 50,000, and it never recovered. Last week its publishers sadly announced the last issue; high costs and changing tastes...
Those who dodged such books as Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, were probably nailed by the movie versions...
Income from the funds, established under the will of Rebecca A. Westengard, his widow, will provide for students of promise in the Law School and other parts of the University to travel and study in Europe, the British Isles, and South America. In addition it will allow students from those countries to study here...
...York City in a borrowed Jaguar, a children's court judge in suburban White Plains acted to give Rita a jolting homecoming. Sicked on the case by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the judge placed Rita's girls by earlier marriages-Rebecca, 9, and Yasmin, 4-in court custody pending a hearing on the society's charges that Rita had neglected them. Rita had left the children in the modest White Plains home of widowed Antique Dealer Dorothy Chambers, an old friend of Dick's family. Early this week Yasmin...
...seven: Georgia's Democrat Rebecca Latimer Felton, who served for two days in 1922; Arkansas' Democrat Hattie Caraway, who was appointed to succeed her husband in 1931, later was elected three times; Louisiana's Democrat Rose Long, who served a year after her husband, Huey, was assassinated in 1935; Alabama's Democrat Dixie Bibb Graves, appointed for five months in 1937; South Dakota's Republican (Miss) Gladys Pyle, elected for two months in 1938; South Dakota's Republican Vera C. Bushfield, who succeeded her husband for three months in 1948; Maine's Republican...