Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knuckled Under. In Zurich, Werner Zumbach got a ten-year suspended sentence for cutting off one of his thumbs, trying to cash in on a $46,000 disability-insurance policy.
Last week B. B. Benjamin, president of the Jewish Welfare Association of Delhi and Northern India, and onetime Under Secretary of Commerce and Industry in Nehru's government, was looking for ways to ensure "sound education" for his sect. Still more important is a rabbi. "Who can come to...
Postum was founded in 1895 by a health-food fan named Charles William Post, who invented Postum and Grape Nuts, one of the first cold cereals, built a thriving business in Battle Creek, Mich, before he died in 1914. Later, under President Colby Chester and Chairman E. F. Hutton (who...
Under One Roof. With his monocle, his grey, lavender-tinted gloves, his white forelock setting off Italianate good looks, Whistler cultivated an exotic showmanship to mask self-doubts about his craft. The company he kept added a satanic touch by being mad, neurasthenic, and sexually deviate or profligate. The most...
By the 1930s, Eaton's vision had caught the California eye. On weekends, happy Californians packed the place like an amusement park, a sort of Disneyland of death. Some came to see the statues or to inspect the graves of their favorite show people-Tom Mix, Jean Harlow, Carole...