Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration of Cincinnati had been established, aligned himself with the regular G.O.P. He and Martha remodeled a rambling house on Indian Hill. He promoted the Cincinnati Symphony, founded by his mother, and planned and raised the funds to turn Uncle Charles' mansion into a museum housing Rembrandts, Van Dycks and other paintings of a more settled pre-impressionist...
Lawry wasn't the only Tiger ace. Joe Holman, a shifty forward, had ten points, six on fouls, Butch Van Breda Kolff came up with numerous rebounds and eight points, and Art Wilson's speed set up several Nassau scores...
...TIME was wrong-incredibly, inexcusably wrong, since the true facts of Starkenborgh's war record had been reported in a previous issue [Oct. 29, 1945]-TIME'S sincere apologies to gallant Ambassador Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer...
...Distinction. In Lakeville, Conn., someone penciled in the Hotchkiss School lavatory: "Schuyler van Kilroy 3rd was here...
...only amens Father Knox got were from Colonel Van Wyck Mason and Dorothy Sayers (both mystery alumni) -and Mason's was qualified. He had long ago decided, said he, that authors had "used just about every known device in mystery stories"; yet innocent new generations of readers were always coming up. "In common with the novel," generalized all-out Miss Sayers, "the detective story is likely to decline in the future. . . . I don't read fiction any more...