Word: restorationism
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Wicked Lady, a 1945 picture starring Margaret Lockwood, James Mason and Patricia Roc, was a big moneymaker in England. But the U.S. will have to wait to see it. Low-cut Restoration costumes worn by the Misses Lockwood and Roc (see cut) display too much "cleavage" (Johnston Office trade term...
Another modernizing job was near completion. Architect Winslow had found the two big sandstone pillars of the northwest Pennsylvania entrance to the White House grounds out of plumb. One had slipped two inches off the vertical. Wind and vibration from Pennsylvania Avenue's trolleys had tilted the other about...
Its statement of purpose in organizing mentstomorrow's rally is: "We favor the restoration of O.P.A. without crippling amendments." Members of the group have stated that the student body is noticeably alarmed lest aid under the G.I. Bill or other limited funds prove insufficient and force many to give up...
A boyish-looking bachelor of 29, he worked hard to prove he was no snob. By campaign's end he had made some 450 speeches before luncheon clubs, Catholic societies, the Camelia Lodge of Sons of Italy. He ate spaghetti with Italians, drank tea with Chinese, sipped sirupy coffee...
Died. John Hollis Bankhead, 73, Senator from Alabama since 1931, who fought hard for the restoration of ex-King Cotton to the U.S. economic throne, last of a hardy trio of congressional Bankheads, uncle of throaty Actress Tallulah; of cerebral thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md.