Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...W. HOVLAND Yale Divinity School...
...W. NUSSBAUMER Duncan, Okla...
Last week he was riding the crest of popularity. For the first time since he entered the White House, he was consistently able to attract strong men to his Administration (General George Marshall, W. Averell Harriman, Lewis Douglas, et al.). No one could accuse him of using ambassadorships to pay off political debts...
When he went to New York on a business trip recently, William W. Smith II, the president of Smith Brothers Cough Drops, was refused a hotel room until he paid in advance. The reason was his scraggly beard, which made him look like a vagrant...
...longer walking Dublin's streets, and the face & figure of Oscar Wilde were almost forgotten ("Poor Oscar," said one old lady, "the English put him in gaol for something-I never did know what"). But Padraic Pearse and Douglas Hyde were still there, and James Joyce and W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Lady Gregory, George Moore, "AE," Lord Dunsany and Poet-Playwright Padraic Colum, whom Mary married...