Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Gwendolyn Cafritz, lithe, lynx-eyed wife of Washington Real Estate Millionaire Morris Cafritz (rhymes with "Say Fritz") stepped forward to take Perle Mesta's place. From her luxurious mansion on Foxhall Road, Mrs. Cafritz issued invitations to a mint julep and steak party this week at the Cafritz estate. The guest list, if all showed up, was almost as impressive as a Mesta fiesta. Among those invited: Vice President Barkley, the John Snyders, the Clark Cliffords, Generals Omar Bradley and Hoyt Vandenberg, a hatful of ambassadors and Cabinet members, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...ready (the jury was out more than 26 hours), Judy entered the courtroom at Archie's side, her face expressionless and pale, the blue circles under her eyes showing the strain of her trial. Smiling nervously, she turned to him: "I don't know whether I can take it or not." Lawyer Archie was brash and noisy as ever. "Don't worry," he explained with fatherly concern. "It's only a verdict...
...peacetime Army was getting more like a country club all the time, and it was not worrying about the expense either. To coax reserve officers and enlisted men into weekend training camps, the Army was fixing up New York's Fort Totten to take care of the citizen soldiers' families as well. The wives and kiddies would have to pay for their own meals and transportation, of course. But the Army would convert part of the post hospital into comfortable family quarters for a long country weekend on the shores of Long Island. The idea, which started...
Tshekedi did not take defeat easily. "I warn you, my nephew," he cried. "They are using you as a tool." Then he announced: "I don't wish to divide the tribe. This white woman comes...
Winston Churchill seemed about to take a flyer. For the first time, he registered racing colors with Britain's Jockey Club-the required preliminary to racing one's own horses. The Churchill colors: chocolate, with pink sleeves...