Word: tania
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, amid these half-hidden battles, life has some compensations for Ana. Her two daughters Marie and Tania (both in their early 20s) are with her. She is very proud of Marie, who was educated in France under Maurice Thorez' care. Her son Vladimir is a lieutenant in the Rumanian army. Sometimes Ana leaves a meeting saying: "I must go now to get supper for my children...
...Little Tania Szabo's father had been an officer in the French Foreign Legion. He was killed at the battle of El Alamein. To avenge him, his English wife, strikingly beautiful Violetta Szabo, 24, entered the British service, undertook the most dangerous missions. Three times she parachuted into occupied France to spy on the Germans...
...Tania Szabo the New Year brought England's George Cross, awarded to her mother, posthumously, for valor of the highest order...
...strangeness of wartime childhood, as suggested last week by New York Times London Correspondent Tania Long: ". . . Youngsters between the ages of five and seven have forgotten . . . many of the attributes of peacetime living. . . . When questioned about . . . bananas [many] stared suspiciously at the teacher. . . . When one little boy was . . . asked what [street lights] were for, he merely shrugged his shoulders in a puzzled manner. . . . Nearly all of them thought that the barrage balloons over London had always been there. . . . One boy had recently seen a lemon in a hothouse in Kew Gardens and a little girl vaguely remembered having...
...musicians, orchestras, schools and clubs throughout the country tuned strings and cleared throats for a week of programs in National Testimonial to hoary Ignace Jan Paderewski. For the New York Newspaper Women's Club, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt awarded $100 each to the Herald Tribune's Tania Long (for reports of London bombing) and the Sun's Kay Thomas (for a fashion description of opening night at the Metropolitan Opera), as 1940's best newshens. Because he delivered "two notable decisions freeing Negroes who had, under torture, confessed to crimes," the name of Supreme Court Justice Hugo...