Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lehigh, Captain Vincent P. Arkins, 4,983 gross tons, owned by U.S. Maritime Commission, flying U.S. flag, lat 8° N, long. 14° W, bearing south along the African coast for Takoradi to pick up manganese ore consigned to U.S. . . . 8:55 a.m. . . . All well...
...deposited by the British on the tiny island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean "owing to the war situation." ∙∙ Henry Ford, who sent an ineffectual "peace ship" abroad last war, became the tenth citizen to sell or lease a yacht to the Navy for $1. (Two others: Vincent Astor, Major Edward Bowes.) ∙∙ Captain Lord Louis Mountbatfen (in command of the aircraft carrier Illustrious at Norfolk Navy Yard) declared in Washington that he had become a straphanger because cabs were beyond his means. ∙∙Debating food rations for men and women in the services, Lady Astor...
...tutte ("Thus do all women"-or more freely translated, The Way of All Flesh) prattled along at prices of $1.10 to $3.30. Its young, energetic performers were a new opera company, named the New Opera Company. Their impresario was a handsome socialite, Helen Huntington Astor Hull, ex-wife of Vincent Astor, now wife of Real-Estate Broker Lytle Hull-one of those great & good women who support the Metropolitan Opera in the style to which it is accustomed...
...Conference's founder, Father Edwin Vincent O'Hara, now Bishop of Kansas City, says that Catholicism urgently needs 10,000 strong country parishes. Instead, 1,022 of the U.S.'s 2,952 counties have no resident Catholic priest at all and another 500 have no Catholic priest in their rural sections...
This synthetic U.S. folk tale, a triumphant Yankee version of Faust, was invented by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (in a short story, The Demi and Daniel Webster). A ticklish job for adaptation to the screen, it has been handled with skill and good humor by Producer-Director William Dieterle (The Story of Louis Pasteur). All That Money Can Buy is definitely superior cinema...