Word: w
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lighted Sparkler. The Pennsylvania Railroad's grey-haired President Martin W. Clement, an arch-Republican, asked Democratic bigwigs to a garden party at the fashionable Merion Cricket Club. But the party seemed oddly like a waxworks exhibition. There, bowing and smiling and real as life, were scores of famous men who had already been politically embalmed...
...last marriage, in 1945, to a balding, amiable theatrical producer named W. Horace Schmidlapp, had long since disintegrated. So had her career. She was still working in B pictures, but she had lost her appeal at the box office. Her health was not good-she suffered from amoebic dysentery contracted overseas. There were rumors that she was broke...
...From the pulpit of Boston's South Baptist Church, the Rev. Louis W. West offered his congregation some political advice: "Most of us in this church are Republicans and the male members have a grand opportunity to show their party loyalty. I suggest they should all grow a Governor Thomas E. Dewey mustache...
...lawyer had pleaded that he was "a fanatic . . . doing what he thought best for his country." Said Federal Judge Francis J. W. Ford, who had taken more than two months to mull over the evidence: "A fanatic can do as much harm to his country as any other person...
...Alexander W. Weddell...