Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed Robert Montgomery as chairman. Democratic National Committeewoman Helen Gahagan (songstress wife of Melvyn Douglas) was rounding up Roosevelt votes with the help of sinister Edward G. Robinson, serene Douglas Fairbanks Jr. National defense got its call with the arrival from Washington of prying Leo Rosten (alias Leonard Q. Ross), essayist and humorist, who was recently appointed "special consultant" to the consumers' division of the NDAC. Rosten may soon be officially stationed in Hollywood, where he has spent the last 18 months preparing a treatise on the movie industry. But this time he came to let the studio heads...
...ROSS Clarksville, Tenn...
...Parliament members had been shown gory German pictures of the Polish invasion just before Nazis invaded Norway. Alabama's Joe Starnes huffed that it was "pure propaganda and I'd like to know whose." Newsmen had no trouble finding out who had arranged the showing-dumpy, bespectacled Ross Collins of Meridian, Miss., who for 15 of his 18 years in Congress has been plumping for mechanization of the Army. For 14 of those years drawling Representative Collins made no progress, used to complain: "I don't seem to have convinced anybody but Hitler...
...ORDEAL OF BRIDGET ELIA-Ernest C. Ross-University of Oklahoma...
...years, during which Mary Lamb outlived all of her family and most of her friends, people grew used to seeing Charles & Mary, "weeping together and walking arm in arm toward the asylum." At other times, theirs was a far from unhappy life. As pieced together by Biographer Ross from the Lamb literary remains, from scraps of correspondence, there is little ordeal in the day-to-day doings of Bridget Elia (Lamb's literary name for his sister). What emerges is a singularly tender brother-&-sister relationship, of much charm, grace, fortitude, patience. In her long lucid intervals, Mary Lamb...