Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concession. In Detroit, William H. van Aspern, 73, and Ellen Anderson O'Brien Jones Davis, 94, got "sick & tired" of neighbors' gossip, finally decided to get married after living together 17 years...
...Francisco, 60-year-old Francis Van Wie asked the Superior Court to remove him from a fruit ranch to which he was paroled after being convicted of bigamy two years ago. Van Wie, an ex-streetcar conductor who married 13 wives before the law caught up with him, wept as he explained his request: college boys, working on the ranch during the summer, kept calling him the "Ding Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line...
...discussion was coolly legalistic, for there was some question whether U.N. had any right to interfere in the Indonesian dispute. Britain, France and Belgium, all colonial powers, had listened sympathetically to The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens: he argued that the Indonesian trouble was a domestic quarrel in the Dutch household, that the Indonesian Republic will not be an independent government until Jan. 1, 1949, The neighbors, said Van Kleffens, had no business to butt...
Meanwhile, action in the Indies on the U.N. demand was as swift as at Lake Success. Although Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook denied that U.N. had any right to intervene, he promised to halt Dutch troops...
...influence had spent itself, they were less sure of what is to come in U.S. writing. Said Robert Penn Warren: "I know that it had better not be the cozy and vulgar version of sweetness-and-light longed for by the friends and relations of Oliver Allston [Elder Critic Van Wyck Brooks] or by complacent tinhorn patrioteers. The times we are heading into shouldn't give much encouragement for that guff except in the lending libraries." Added Dos Passos: "Young writers who believe in themselves should be willing to starve in a garret once more...