Word: theys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Depending on whether they read their news in English or French, Montrealers last week got different slants on the same story. The French-language press reported that a man named Taillefer had pleaded guilty to five charges of keeping and selling narcotics. English papers were more specific: the man was...
"I believe we of England have a harmonious feeling for Southern women," observed Gertrude Lawrence, who will play the Southern mother in the movie version of The Glass Menagerie. "They are usually reposed, quiet-spoken and gentle in their manner. You'll find that true of most English women...
Grace Tully, author of the fast-selling F.D.R. My Boss, looked back on her old secretarial job with mixed emotions. "They were hard sessions," she recalled. "You worked day and night-and each night you'd go home when the birds were singing. It was that late, that early...
After eleven months of divorce (following 14 months of marriage), Doris ("Richest Blonde in the World") Duke, 36. and second husband Porfirio ("Rubi") Rubirosa, 41, were going around together again. From Paris they arrived in Rome together, and a couple of days later breezed back to Paris.
"I assume they are enjoying themselves, and why interfere?" commented Britain's Ernie Bevin, picketed by the American-Irish Minute Men of 1949 on the dock in Manhattan as he sailed for home. "I have a sort of fascination about pickets. I used to organize so many of them...