Word: reginald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reginald Jenney...
...Reginald Fitz...
...other ambassadors presented themselves last week to Argentina's no-longer-isolated Government. Britain's Sir Reginald Leeper docked in the fog to report "great interest [in Britain] in the Argentine market." When Brazil's João Baptista Luzardo arrived at B.A.'s Lacroze railway station, he was met and embraced by Perón himself and cheered by thousands of descamisados (shirtless ones) specially summoned by the Strong Man to make a fraternal greeting to "the representative of Brazil's marmiteiros [dinner-pail carriers]." Luzardo responded by grabbing and kissing Argentine and Brazilian...
...English plumber, can't keep her helping hands off defective drains no matter what the social circumstances. In fact, she seems incapable of learning "her place." This combination of ability and inability becomes acutely embarrassing when she goes into service for one of the better county families (Reginald Owen, Margaret Bannerman and Scion Peter Lawford...
Homage to Cloacina. These, and a thousand other sordid details-all inspired by Cloacina, Goddess of the Sewers -appear in British Author Reginald Reynolds' Cleanliness and Godliness-"A Discussion of the Problems of Sanitation from Earliest Times to the Present Day." Unlike most plumbings of such channels, Cleanliness and Godliness is a first-rate literary essay, overflowing with sanity and bubbling with wit. Its heroes include Moses (whose laws, says Author Reynolds, were based less on divine sanction than on pamphlets issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Health); Elizabethan Sir John Harington, the inventor of the water-closet...