Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monroe Doctrine, which challenged all the nations of Europe, a doctrine of isolation. The policy expanded again with John Hay's "Open Door" in China. Under Theodore Roosevelt, it landed the U.S. in the middle of the world stage. It reached a climax in 1917 when Woodrow Wilson, in words which it became fashionable to sneer at in the '30s, said...
Vastly different from MacVeagh is his colleague assigned to Ankara, Edwin Carleton Wilson, 54, who was also called to Washington. No specialist, he is a general practitioner in the diplomatic profession, which has been his lifelong career. During more than a quarter-century divided between faraway legations and duty at the fountainhead in Washington, Wilson has acquired sureness and efficiency. Not only is his embassy the best-run in Ankara; he has a knack of anticipating State Department wishes. Perhaps most important, Wilson is willing to take responsibility for quick decisions when there is no time for consultation-a quality...
...makes my blood boil," wrote Mrs. Wilson C. Bridges, "to think that children see such pictures. . . . I'm a soldier's wife . . and know there are many women who suffer terrible disgrace just because of such horrible pictures [see cut] which cause straying thoughts and lead to divorce.. . . God has provided us with clothes, so let's wear them...
...widow too. An old gentleman who was unmistakably Miss Dvorak's lover in the book is presented in film as a dear old friend of the family. A part which Maupassant thought of as a very shady lady (prostitute, except in Hollywood), is played by Marie Wilson, who is identified as "a dancer...
...When Wilson Wyatt and the Veterans Emergency Housing Program were thrown out in December, it was proclaimed that now something could be done to stimulate building, that now that "these bureaucratic restrictions" were in the federal ash-can, private enterprise would get to work and provide the necessary housing. Even the President had said in his opening message to Congress that one million homes would be built this year, as matters then stood...