Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Committee, leaped back as manager of a Willkie campaign. Along Philadelphia's swank Main Line, rough & ready Wendell Willkie had become the rage. William H. Harman, vice president of Baldwin Locomotive Works, and head of the Pennsylvania Willkie-for-President Club, declared: "I regard this as a semi-religious movement and we are trying to get it on a revival basis." A Chestnut Hill lady wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer: "To my way of thinking the Lord has sent us Wendell Willkie...
...book is such a study in the relationships of human Christs and semi-Christs to a suffering world as Dostoevski made into the most annihilating literature of his century. As a candidate for high honors, however, Mrs. McCullers flunks out flat on a crucial matter. As a writer of words, she is never distinguished, never in one glint verbally original...
...last of three Harvard survivors in the annual Brookline Country Club golf tournament went down to defeat yesterday afternoon as Ace Cordingley bowed to Leo Martin, 6-5. Martin was also responsible for the elimination of Bob Graves, 4-3, in the semi-final round...
Seven PK men were killed last fall in the German invasion of Poland. A few days before Nazi troops swept into Belgium and Holland, the Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau, Germany's semi-official news agency, announced that 23 PK reporters had died in action during the war-presumably 16 had been killed in Norway...
Lillian Russell (20th Century-Fox), Producer Darryl F. Zanuck's semi-annual rummaging in the attic of U. S. culture, nostalgically evokes the howling vulgarities of the gilded era. This time the hourglass figure of Singer Lillian Russell serves as a prop on which to drape a long (two hours) and lavish account of her vocal triumphs and marital monotonies. For reasons which the picture never clears up, Alice Faye is cast as Lillian Russell. Queues of top-hatted gentlemen, roomfuls of roses, $15,000 trinkets sent her anonymously by Diamond Jim Brady fail to dent her indomitable domesticity...