Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expensive Chair. Sing Sing Prison, which has electrocuted only seven women in its history, went to considerable trouble and expense in preparing to execute Martha Beck, the "Lonely Hearts" murderess. To accommodate Mrs. Beck-who beat another woman's brains out after plotting the deed with a greasy-haired Romeo named Raymond Fernandez-Sing Sing reopened the woman's wing of the death house and hired four female helpers...
...last week its Coke selling campaign had proved so successful that five bottling plants were clanking away in Milan, Leghorn, Venice and Rome. Several hundred thousand bottles were sold daily, and the Communists rightly feared it was another victory for U.S. free enterprise. Complained one Red: "Yesterday I went into my favorite wineshop and found three people there. All were drinking Coca-Cola. The humiliation...
Mink & Trout. Last year Curtiss farms, stocked with 900 dairy cows, 9,000 hens (output: 2.5 million eggs annually), 8,000 turkeys, 200 beef cattle and 6,000 purebred hogs, rang up some $1,750,000 in sales. Schnering went into the risky business of raising broilers and, after experimenting with the chicks' diet, cut the growing time from twelve weeks to eleven weeks. He grossed $785,000 on 550,000 broilers...
...family were those classic victims of the 19th Century-the father who took to drink and violence, the brother who went mad, the brother who took opium. There were also such delights of life in the hills and lanes of Lincolnshire that at Cambridge in 1827 the poet wrote a homesick set of lines complaining that the smoke of the university town besmirched the pure stars...
...portrait of Divver belongs in the gallery of great comic figures. In his youth reduced by sneering Manhattan intellectuals to a self-analyzing jelly, Divver believed, or thought he believed, in Freud and historical Forces; his misery reached brilliant heights as he talked his first marriage to death. He went abroad to study life under Fascism, and found significance in everything from prostitutes to opera. Wrote Divver in his notebook...