Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ana Maria is fond of lilies and orchids, which she grows, and wild about bullfighting. Having studied in the U.S. for a year at San Francisco's Sacred Heart School, she would like to travel more, hopes to take up social work as a career.
A parade of workers and government employees, who had been given the afternoon off, wound its way through downtown Havana last week, now & then raising a polite shout: "Empréstito, si! [The loan, yes!]." They were signifying their well-organized approval of President Prío Socarrás...
When the spirit moves him, Montreal Sculptor Robert Roussil, 24, does not fuss around with preliminary sketches; he snatches up hammer & chisel and attacks the raw material as it stands. Last summer he saw an oddly shaped tree, a tall pine with a forked trunk, and the spirit moved. By...
Roussil, a war veteran who supports his wife and one-year-old child by working as a part-time steeplejack and carpenter, .was not too much disturbed. Said he: "I guess I'll just leave it there for now. It seems to have a nice home." By week'...
Vice President Alben W. Berkley and Fiancee Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley bore up remarkably well under the strain of a full pre-wedding week. Recovering from flu in a St. Louis, hospital, Mrs. Hadley made every minute count by approving the final details of her trousseau (a blue wedding dress...