Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading the nonsense surrounding Messrs. Walker, Exner and Earl's activities, I thank providence for such small favors as the Volkswagen...
...Rosenberg & Stiebel for an even $200,000. The dealer refused to say for whom he was bidding. But sharp-eyed reporters could hardly fail to note the jubilation of Henry Ford 11 and his wife when the painting was knocked down, or miss Mrs. Ford's breathless "thank you" to her husband...
...mileage for an older model: she poked her thimble nose through big fluttering fans, slipped off the piano a time or two, tripped over her long chiffon scarf. With limp, well-scrubbed adoration, Pat said: "You sure deserve the reputation you have," to which worldly-wise Bea replied: "Thanks-I think." Before she got hopelessly boxed in a square dance, Comedienne Lillie, 59, and Singer Boone, 23, did a spritely spoof of country music called I Got Tears in My Ears from Lying on my Back in my Bed While I Cry Over You. But when Pat offered...
...Yugoslavia. Rebecca West once invited a professor who lived in a smaller town to come to Belgrade. He declined, saying: "Thank you very much, but I am like Hamlet. I want very much to go to Belgrade, but I cannot make up my mind." Most Shakespearean producers, critics and audiences have agreed with this point of view, complains Author West. Hamlet, they say, is the most fascinating of plays-and Hamlet the most irresolute of princes. But, Author West suggests, how about taking another look at Shakespeare's text? Instead of seeming an ambivalent neurotic with a pure heart...
...Times Square, a bronze tablet marked the site of the birth 69 years ago of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill. A few years before he died in 1953, O'Neill was sent a photograph of his bygone birthplace, then a family hotel, since razed. In his thank-you note, the prize-laden (a Nobel and four Pulitzers) dramatist quipped about a figure, leaning against a lamppost in the picture's foreground, having "a bun on," was moved to reminisce: "In the old days, when I was born, a man−especially one from Kilkenny−went...