Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wanamaker's department store, second floor). The late John D. Rockefeller's heiress (granddaughter), the Marchioness de Cuevas, is a patron for Mrs. David Randall MacIver's American Association for Assistance to French Artists. The Committee of Mercy, Inc., founded in 1914 by the late Elihu Root and August Belmont, has been revived. It helps both French and British civilians with money spent through seven subcommittees. So far raised...
...family earning from $2,000 to $5,000 a year may get an efficient, pleasant house. They will cost from $2,850 to $6,900 (with land, up to $10,000). Eight top-architectural firms designed the eight houses at nominal fees: Cameron Clark; Gardner A. Dailey; Holabird & Root; Howe & Brown; Perry, Shaw & Hepburn; Shaw, Naess & Murphy; Shreve, Lamb & Harmon; Treanor & Fatio...
...praise of them generally mystagogic; he admires Love-but writes no loving poem; socially, he is a run-of-the-parlor pink-but he is a nearly bloody hater of the upper-class English "old gang." By birth Auden belongs with them; and he sees a worm at their root that he would like to get his hands...
...Field Marshal, hoping to induce farmers to produce more and consume less, upped the price of butter 8? a pound, of milk 1? a quart and promised a bonus of $40 for every idle German acre brought under cultivation. Goring insisted that next year's root crop yield must be 10% to 15% over last year's, which was the highest ever. "Do not betray the faith we have in you, German farmer, to provide food for us," appealed the Field Marshal. "I give you a slogan for the production battle of 1940: Now more than ever! Ours...
...lunchwagon emerged two cabbies, one minus fare, the other minus cab. Miss St. Johns presently faced charges of driving a cab without an operator's license, passing a red light, driving while intoxicated. Novelist St. Johns' latest book, to be published Feb. 15, is entitled The Root of All Evil...