Word: wente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...story went on to say that the Ladancas never had enough money to buy Bruno trousers and shoes at the same time so that he could go to school, where he would at least get one good meal each day. "So he's growing up ignorant," Mrs. Ladanca said. "What's worse, he's hungry...
...Lucia does not read or write any language at all, so she went around the corner to a small household supply store owned by brawny Luigi Ottavia, who was born in the States. He read the letters to her and wrote her replies. 'Within the morning,' he told me, 'everybody had heard about it.' They called on her one by one, looked at the letters, which they could not read, and talked about them. Some thought nothing would happen. Others, like Luigi Ottavia, who knew something of Americans, reassured Lucia that 'something will come...
Mindy's start was not promising: the leader of The Bronx's James Monroe High School band said she was "not good enough" to sing with his outfit. Mindy believed him, meekly took a job as salesgirl in a Manhattan candy shop. After the Christmas rush, she went to Miami to visit her aunt. A nightclub owner heard her singing with the rest of her party, offered her a job. A scared 17, she answered: "I have to go back to work." But work at the candy shop was never the same again. Mindy quit, and her parents...
When the newsmen went to see the house, out in the nearby Virginia woods, they found a plain 14 ft. 8½ in. by 36 ft. 8¼ in. structure, of plywood walls inside and redwood walls outside, insulated with aluminum foil and wool. Besides picture windows and a cozy fireplace, the house has a small bedroom separated by a draw curtain from the living room. The living room can also be converted into a second bedroom. The house is heated by a system of glass-radiant heaters that plug into sockets, throw off infra-red rays which warm...
After that the bidding went on & on until Greece finally accepted canny Mahmout's price of $250.50 a mule. The Turk boarded a plane for Washington to collect his dollars. But he had underestimated the resourcefulness of U.S. mule skinners, such as Kansas City's Ferd Owen, biggest trader in the U.S. (TIME, July 14, 1947), and Texas' big dealer, Parker Jameson Horse & Mule...