Word: totting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born, not in Russia, but in London, and her real name is Lillian Alicia Marks. Her father, Arthur Marks, was a globe-trotting Brit ish mining engineer who went to school in the U.S. and once worked on the Nile's great Aswan Dam. A serious-minded tot, Lillian would probably have embarked on a career in medicine but for the paradoxi cal fact that she had weak arches. To cor rect them she took up dancing at the age of nine. A year later, in 1921, she danced her first engagement - as a child prodigy in the traditional...
...some evening with a terrific appetite, don't rush to supper. Relax, as I did, in the coziest little armchair imaginable, and read a delightful article on page 81, called "Children Can Be Taught Life," by Dorothy May Anderson. It's all about how the author, when but a tot of twelve, too so long arranging the flowers for the table that she had an awful time getting lunch prepared on time...
...Bank, N.J. (near the Army camp where her husband now works) Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco explained, "I was never proud of being a Vanderbilt. If I weren't so happy now, I might hate them [her mother and aunt fought over her custody when she was a tot]. They never thought of what they were doing to me. . . . Every time I was hurt or lonely ... I wished I had a father living and a mother who loved him and loved me. ... I kept saying to myself, 'when I grow up I'll marry and have...
...text of the telegram is as follows: "The Harvard Student Council desires to express the opposition of Harvard students to the Sentate amendment tot he 18-19 draft bill, which prohibits sending men under twenty years old overseas without a year's training.--Thomas Matters, president...
...opposition tot he extension for the draft beyond one year, in its unwillingness to allow any draftees to be sent overseas, even in its reluctance over the original draft bill, Congress has consistently set political opportunism against military necessity. While claiming to speak for its constituents, it has actually been left at the post again and again by an awakened public opinion. It only remains for that public opinion to make itself audible--even to Congressmen...