Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bankruptcy cases, and became known as the "amiable liquidator." He believes that the French political system is more to blame than the men who try to run it, and once remarked: "It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune." Socialist Vincent Auriol, the outgoing President, had hardly been better known when he was elected seven years ago, but he has been, by common consent, an excellent President...
...public view for the first time. The property of his great-grandnephew, the Count of Paris, the paintings were being exhibited, in an odd reconciliation of historical opposites, under the joint sponsorship of the count-the Bourbon-Orléans pretender-and the retiring President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol. Among the 60 neatly drawn and pleasantly colored watercolors of military life in the U.S. were Fording the River at Bull Run, a sylvan scene of a Union convoy along a quiet road, and an exciting pictorial account, called Pickets Surprised at Peck's House, of a pistol-range...
...presidential candidates in the 1952 election drew a prison term last week. The loser: Vincent Hallinan, 57, high-fee San Francisco lawyer, who got 140,138 votes for President on the ticket of the Communist-backed Progressive Party. The sentence: $50,000 fine and 18 months' imprisonment for evading $36,739 in federal income taxes...
Religious and inspirational books, together with accounts of personal adventure, stole the show all year. After the Revised Standard Bible came the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking-and it did nearly as well as the three fiction bestsellers put together. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female sold very well for an $8 book, but even at some 200,000 copies, it was not the runaway that the trade had expected. It was only one of many books on women (Frenchwoman Simone de Beauvoir's disgruntled The Second...
Revised Standard Version of the Bible The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale Angel Unaware, Dale Evans Rogers Sexual Behavior in the Human Female...