Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to travel around the country," said Artist O'Brady. "Also I'll have to visit Evanston. Papa-he's 84 now-is still spouting steam because I'm a painter." In Evanston, Gertrude O'Brady would be remembered as a blonde girl named McBrady (she modified her name to make it easier for the French to pronounce). Now, at 43, she sometimes fumbles English words, her braids are red instead of blonde, and she has made art-loving Paris take her work and like...
...Sentinel himself; his wife Dorothy and their 15-year-old son Charles Jr. (whose column is called "Crowder's Chowder") do the rest. In reporting the news of Flora (pop. 6,000) and Republican Clay County, Republican Editor Crowder says he sometimes "plays up what the business interests want played down...
...owned Daily News (circ. 88,223) take turns denouncing gamblers and racketeers who do a reputed $100-million-a-year business in Dade County. Most Miamians ignore the periodic newspaper crusades; they seem to feel that the gamblers are only giving well-heeled tourists the fling they want...
...helped solve 20 local murders, exposed a baby-adoption racket, and pursued Rita & Aly from continent to continent with the determined zest of a private eye on a fat expense account. But the tabloid's biggest circulation-puller was a lively column of double-meaning "Strictly Personal" want ads, which sniggering newsmen on other Los Angeles papers suspected Mirror staffers of writing themselves. Sample: "Man with lavender shirt that's a dilly would like to meet lady with blue dress that's a dilly. Object lavender blue dilly dilly. Box K-47. Mirror...
...character is made clear (she still lives in Montclair, runs her husband's business and was 1948's "Woman of the Year"). But the personalities of the twelve Gilbreth children are never created; they remain a vague, boisterous chorus. How little such shortcomings mattered to people who want to read about the Pierce-Arrow days, Crowell's cash registers were recording...