Word: wilderment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peaceful in the Country (Harry James; Columbia). Sapling Tunesmith Alec Wilder (Neurotic Goldfish, A Debutante's Diary) gets both music and meaning into the ballad of the month...
...society's Patricia Anne ("Honey-chile") Wilder phoned home in a panic to make sure a borrowed $65,000 necklace was still safe on her dressing table. "Yes'm," said her maid, "and it looks 'most real. I was a killer las' night when I wore it up in Harlem...
...improve this situation was the job of the first National Nutrition Conference. Chairman: Federal Security Administrator Paul Vories McNutt. Fellow laborers: Vice President Henry Agard Wallace, who has an expert's knowledge of vitamins. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Raymond Wickard, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Nutritionists Russell Morse Wilder of the Mayo Clinic and Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia University...
German bombs gave two Faculty members their first taste of modern warfare recently when John E. Gordon, Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine, and Paul V. Beeson, in charge of the University Public Health Unit, received minor injuries in a London air raid...
Canal Zone, last month. He had sailed from Manhattan on the same ship with Playwright Thornton Wilder, who is on a cultural mission to Latin America. At sea Anderson fell ill, 48 hours later had to be carried ashore at Colon on a stretcher...