Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Care (twice), the world premiere of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, and a sexy piece called The Wicked Lady, in which the earthiest dialogue had been discreetly toned down for one performance. (Next day Queen Mary alertly dispatched a lady in waiting to see the show and report what she had missed...
With variations, this story is at least as old as a press report of 1618. Under the title, "News from Perin [Penrhyn], in Cornwall, of a most Bloody and unexampled Murther," the 17th-Century British reporter told how a father and step-mother killed and robbed their rich overnight guest, then discovered that the dead man was their long absent...
...Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's 71st birthday, but he was hardly in a mood for festivities. In his hand as he rose to address an ear-cupping House of Commons was his 5,000-word report on the control of atomic energy, drafted after his recent Washington conference with President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee...
Diana Roosevelt, 18, Eleanor's niece and a George Washington U. freshman, failed to keep her feet in the stirrups at a horse show in Silver Springs, Md. Results: her own mount threw her, another kicked her, fractured her skull, broke her jaw. Hospital report: "Doing well...
Very different is the report of the ghost of a little old French lady in a faded green bonnet who tiptoes through the rooms of an old plantation at night. "Tirelessly, she journeys from bedchamber to bedchamber, raising mosquito baires and peering hopefully into the face of each sleeper." It is her doom never to find the face she seeks...