Word: websters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connally tried to laugh it off: "Is Webster's Unabridged Dictionary offered as an exhibit or appendix to the pending Resolution?" But neither he nor the Senate could laugh off the fact that the long-awaited Great Debate in the Senate had become a quibble...
Soon billboards screamed "Halo Wawa."Seattle newspapers snapped it on the end of news stories. Through the aisles of the Webster-Brinkley plant stalked Chief Yellow Lark, onetime janitor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in full tribal regalia. His answer to all questions: "Halo Wawa!" Over the central juke-box system into Seattle beer parlors came bugle calls followed by the stern admonition: "Watch your conversation! [Dramatic pause.] Halo Wawa...
...wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate braininess, dug up an Aleutian skull larger than Daniel Webster's. Hrdlička concluded that U.S. life had streamlined the European body, that Uncle Sam and the Gibson Girl fairly represent old U.S. white stock in evolution. He died of heart disease in Washington...
Elisabeth Bergner, playing in The Two Mrs. Carrolls (TIME, Aug. 16), looked forward with relish to her next play, John Webster's early 17th Century The Duchess of Malfi. "It is an incestuous play," she explained. "A woman almost gives birth to a baby on the stage, a woman almost rapes a man on the stage...
...Webster Groves...