Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ellison, a 15-year-old Alexandria, Va. high-school girl, was puzzled to find that in some textbook versions of the poem Sea Fever ("I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky"), the word "go" was omitted. She sent her problem to the author and back came a hand-written note from John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England since 1930, who wrote: "The word 'go' should be in the line. In some editions it dropped out somehow, but is now restored. It is the original reading...
...Democratic Treasurer of the U.S. (she was the first woman Treasurer, and her signature appears on all U.S. folding money printed since mid-1949); and Andrew J. Gray, 40, Washington public-relations counsel and onetime Boston Post reporter; she for the second time, he for the first; in Alexandria, Va...
There's the Rub. In Arlington, Va., Summerfield McCarteney, 60, told police that a woman had stopped him to ask directions to Falls Church, offered to cure his limp by massaging his back, taken $265 from his wallet...
...Club plans a joint production with the Radcliffe Choral Society on March 13, after which it will begin its spring vacation tour. Stops at New York, Washington, and Baltimore, with an evening performance at the Woodbury School, Woodbury, Va., highlight the trip...
Petty Offense. In Danville, Va., William Petty of 712 Halifax Road, who complained that a man had thrown a brick through his car window, was told by police that they had arrested and convicted of malicious damage William Petty of 1328 Abbott Street...