Word: thinkingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aspect of her wedding to Louis Villani, 23, a mechanic of the same city. She had her heart set on getting hitched in a diving bell at the bottom of the ocean, but in writing to Atlantic City to arrange for the equipment, she pleaded: "Please don't think we are trying to be sensational or maybe even crazy...
Last week, at the behest of Congress' Library Committee, Librarian Luther H. Evans announced that the library will discontinue all prizes for art, music and literature. "We think it's a bad policy for the Government...to be giving prizes and awards," explained the committee, "particularly in matters of taste...
...airborne travelers who alighted last week in a steady stream at glittering, jingling Bangkok were apt to think that they had landed in the middle of Shangrila. The chaos that filled the rest of Asia seemed like a distant nightmare. At Bangkok's busy, orderly Don Muang airport, immigration officers smiled toothily at newcomers, whisked them through a onceover-lightly customs inspection, politely urged them to stay as long as possible...
...said, have devised a new set of manners based on rights. There is "dour deference for the first comer, the man at the head of the queue." A "ritual of the queue" has evolved, in which women take part with stock phrases like "This lady was before me, I think," and "Would you keep my place...
...comic books with such come-on titles as Sweethearts, Romantic Secrets, Teen-Age Romances and Young Love were outselling all others, even the blood & thunder variety. The sexy, slick-covered romance-mongers -souped-up soap operas in new wrappers-were rolling off the presses as fast as publishers could think up new names...