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Word: thelma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet rose mild Mrs. Thelma Cazalet Keir, veteran Tory reformist and sister of the late Major Victor Cazalet, killed in the plane crash that brought death to Poland's Premier-General Wladyslaw Sikorski. Mildly she proposed an amendment granting equal pay to women teachers. Gently the Government's respected Richard Austen Butler, President of the Board of Education, objected that equal pay had nothing to do with the Education Bill, should be considered at some other time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pride & Petulance | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...crew are Electricians Myra Iorg and Thelma Watson, who once worked in defense plants; Carpenter Ruth Wallick, who has three brothers in the Army and says that she used to do all the carpentry around home; Plumber Marguerete Julien; Plumber Laura Derrickson, who once attended the Fort Wayne Bible Institute, now zealously preaches the doctrine of not throwing anything in the "heads"-because if one gets stopped up "we'll have to take out that whole doggone bulkhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Birthda | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...Statistical School become coed? Who is the female who occupies (appropriately) a back seat in class and places a "restraining influence" on the Professors whenever a "quip" is forthcoming? The secret is out. She is Miss Thelma Cutter of the Glass Hall secretarial staff, who, incidentally, is progressing admirably in the studies given the "Singing Statisticians." If ever a Women's Army Statistical Patrol (WASP) is organized, she'll surely become No. 1 Stinger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATISTICACKLES | 4/30/1943 | See Source »

...built a play which though weak in itself provides an excellent vehicle for Ethel Barrymore and a fine company of actors. Miss Barrymore plays the role of the spinster with great technique and feeling as well as a fine sense of comedy. Richard Waring as the student and Thelma Schnee as the serving wench share the honors with Miss Barrymore, while the lesser parts are all finely played, particularly that of the local squire. It is a case of excellent acting making a fine play out of a good one. And best of all, it brings to Boston Ethel Barrymore...

Author: By S. A. K., | Title: PLAYGOER | 5/7/1942 | See Source »

Married. Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, 17, daughter of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt; and Pasquale di Cicco, 32, Hollywood actor's agent, ex-professional darncer; he for the second time; in Santa Barbara. Di Cicco's first wife was the late Cinemactress Thelma Todd. His father, the late Pasquale Sr., was Long Island's "Broccoli King." Gloria comes into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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