Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington is a 9 o'clock town. Lights that burn late mean not hilarity, but grim business. Last week significant night lights glowed in the two huge, forbidding grey piles that flank the trim beauty of the White House-the Treasury on the East, the State Department on the West...
Creator of this startling masterpiece turned out to be a Missouri Negress, Flora Cornell Lewis. Born in Kansas, 36-year-old Mrs. Lewis has been painting since she was six, has never studied. Farm Life was done in a battered farmhouse near the little town of Marshall, Mo., where she lives with her husband, Dr. Percy Lewis, a Negro veterinary surgeon...
...average of twelve chromosomes from his grandparents, six from his greatgrandparents, only one or two from his great-great-great-grandparents. "If you claimed descent from Miles Standish, the odds may be 20 to one that you are no more related to him than is any one else in town...
...years ago the distinguished members of a British Naval Mission to Rumania stopped on a desolate stretch of the Black Sea coast a few miles north of Constantsa. There lay small Lake Tashaul, nearly dry, with a narrow channel leading through sand dunes to the sea. There was no town near by; the country beyond the lake was devoted to sheep raising. This, said the British Admiral, was the place to build Rumania's great Naval base, home of the dreamed-of Rumanian Black Sea Fleet. It was also a convenient spot for refueling, since it was close...
...from a bust of the Great Emancipator above his desk that Lawyer Lem Schofield (Bob Burns) derives the inspiration that enables him to oil the troubled industrial waters, keep his young partner out of the clutches of a slick capitalist and the workers of his home town out of the clutches of an equally slick radical, and wind up with his party's nomination (tantamount to election) to the U. S. Senate. In vanquishing un-American influences from rich and poor, Lem has to knock a few heads together, but mainly he relies on talk. If Abe Lincoln...