Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hauled them away, like so many square-cut emeralds, under bristling armed guard. In Manhattan, two frequently quoted women allowed themselves to be quoted. Said famed Wit Dorothy Parker: "I'm smoking whatever I can get-Strange Fruit, or whatever they're called." Said bustling Columnist Dorothy Thompson: "I go around snatching cigarets from the mouths of my young girl acquaintances and saying: Look what happened...
...Thompson "Saying a very intimate goodbye to the entire enrollment of an Oklahoma girls school...
Only now are various and sundry reports trickling in from this dance of two weeks ago. Professor Hanson's daughter was out for the commissioning but we didn't have the opportunity to question her closely. Maestro Jim Thompson told of just flocks of starry-eyed actresses (Curry Dramatic School) using their latest approaches on the assembled multitude. All we know is that the cider was good and lasted through the evening in spite of Earl Tahner's long draughts...
...October day a year ago, pert WAVE Ensign Marie Thompson stood on an East Coast airfield and with a kiss for all hands sent 36 Navy flyers off to the Pacific. They were the pilots of Fighting Squadron Two. Last week WAVE Thompson had the news that all but four of the boys she had kissed goodbye were on their way home, that the squadron had made one of the great combat records...
Cartoonists, to Arms! Some of the columnists who were embroiled deeply in the Term III campaign were oddly aloof. Walter Lippmann and Dorothy Thompson seemed preoccupied with the larger world. But Walter Winchell campaigned indefatigably, rallying café society to the Term IV cause with a rapid-fire retelling of anti-Dewey stories...