Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The big issue was plainly put by This Week's Editor William I. Nichols, who made two European trips as an outside adviser (This Week has no foreign editions) for the State Department. He reported: "It is naive to say 'let private enterprise carry the ball,' and...
Protestant parents, he was free to indulge his moods and vices, and he indulged them. His family had two estates in Normandy and a luxurious Paris apartment. By his own account he was a singularly unattractive youngster and only five when he began to practice "bad habits." A picture taken...
And if he ever gets tired of bowing before his altar and its shrunken human contents, Moran explains that maybe some relatives would like the head as a paper weight for Christmas. If not, he adds, they certainly will be eager to get it at one of the University museums...
Communist Labor Boss Giuseppe di Vittorio publicly admitted his distress that Italian Reds had been obliged to attack the Marshall Plan. He said he would ask the Communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions to let workers in each country decide for themselves what stand to take on U.S. aid...
Meanwhile, at St. James's Theater, Guy Domville had opened brilliantly, but during the second act the audience began to laugh at an elderly actress whose hoop skirt and high plumed hat struck them as ridiculous. Then the producer (and star) made an awkward last-act exit, and the...