Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...historical injustice been done than the rating of Warren G. Harding as a failure in the presidency by the 55 "authorities" of Professor Schlesinger [TIME, Nov. 8]. If service to the people who elected them is the criterion, then Harding ranks far above the two 20th Century "greats" [Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt] who allowed this nation to be plunged into two World Wars and then saddled us with a mountain of debt...
...Hedy Lamarr ("What I'd call a heavy leg ... good construction") ; 2) Alexis Smith ("willowy"); 3) Ray Bolger ("A good dancing leg ... Legs don't have to be a woman's to be beautiful"); 4) Nightclub Singer Julie Wilson; 5) and 6) Citation; 7) Jane Russell, whose pret ty legs have been "overshadowed"; 8) a Chippendale chair...
Died. Lewis R. ("Hack") Wilson, 48, colorful, brawling onetime National League home-run king (in 1930 he hit 56, four short of Ruth's record); in Baltimore. An ex-coal miner, Wilson joined the New York Giants in 1923, hit his peak from 1926 to 1931 with the Chicago Cubs, finally drank his way out of the big leagues, ended up broke...
Died. Anna Jarvis, 84, originator of Mother's Day; in West Chester, Pa. In 1914 Spinster Jarvis finally lobbied Congress and President Wilson into designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, spent the rest of her life vainly scrapping with florists, candy makers and greeting-card companies to keep them from commercializing...
...minutes later he slipped unnoticed into the house and up to the second floor, where Miss Bancroft was taking a bath. Mrs. Wilson heard his footsteps and called from the living room "Is there anyone walking around?" Receiving no answer, she cried, "I am going to call the police...