Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make a livable family income. After work, men stand an hour or more in line in front of tobacco shops to get five cigarets, made, they say, of "sunburned grass." Women stand before candy stores to get the 20 pieces of candy allowed each person monthly. They have to visit seven or eight shops to add a vegetable or fruit to the potatoes and bread and ersatz coffee and 400 grams of meat allotted to each person per week...
...sent a box of food to imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud. "I cannot send you guns," he wrote, "but here is some butter." Crotchety old Bachelor James C. McReynolds, longtime Supreme Court Justice, "adopted" 32 British children, one Belgian. Dorothy Thompson arrived in England for a month's visit "to see my friends . . . for pleasure . . . to know what the British are thinking." Expatriate Novelist Kay Boyle flew across from Lisbon with her family of seven-biggest family the Clippers have ever carried. Hollywood's No. 1 private, Jimmy Stewart, was promoted to corporal. Heywood Hale Broun passed...
Induction. Early in his Army career he pays a two-day visit to one of the Psychological Laboratory's 17 testing stations. He is seated in a chair, asked all manner of questions, submitted to unexpected electric shocks, put to work on an ergograph (machine to test muscle fatigue), given mechanical reflex tests. Without his knowledge a motion-picture camera hidden by a wall chart records every revealing facial reaction, every embarrassed ear-scratching, every fake posturing. His voice is tested for warmth of melody (strong sympathies and emotions) or hard, staccato timbre (calm and determined will power...
Last week the Chicago Daily News's lanky, quiet-spoken Far Eastern Correspondent Archibald T. Steele sent out a tale of a visitor to No. 76 Jessfield Road, Shanghai. He had interviewed in Chungking one of the few Chinese alive to tell the story of a visit there...
Dorothy Lamour offered to write to any draftee whose number is 8962. ∽∽ Paramount urged a screen test on Ernest Hemingway for a part in For Whom the Bell Tolls, ∽∽ "An airplane factory" barred a visit from Susan Hayward because time lost for ogling would cost $20,000. ∽∽ A Hollywood soda fountain put a plaque on a stool reading "On This Stool Sat Lana Turner When She Was Discovered...