Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contract) for Lucille Ball, the hardest woman to handle since Lucretia Borgia. She and Frances Langford carry the torch songs while P. U., playing against Columbia, Pitt, and even Cornell, becomes the highest team in America in points scored--for and against. Fourth Horseman Desi Arnaz, an argentine, prairie wolf, shows possibilities of becoming the greatest threat to American womanhood since the fourteen-day diet. And Harvard's quarterback, Eddie Bracken, (who knocked down more passes in 1939 than any American except Ginger Rogers) does the Crimson proud...
...issue had come clear. Partisan Willkiemen saw it as a choice between freedom and collectivism; partisan Rooseveltians saw it as an effort by a Wall Street wolf to don New Deal lamb's wool. The temperate saw it, as Columnist Clapper had clearly stated it, as a struggle between two basic philosophies...
Died. Marguerite Clark, 53, onetime silent cinemactress; of pneumonia, after five days' illness; in Manhattan. Cincinnati-born, she co-starred at 15 with De Wolf Hopper. She appeared in Victor Herbert's famed Babes in Toyland and in 1915 went to Hollywood to make such films as Snow White and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Peer of Mary Pickford, fairy-like (4 ft. 10 in.) Marguerite Clark retired in 1920, wed Harry Palmerston Williams, late (1936), wealthy, Louisiana cypress heir and maker of fast Wedell-Williams airplanes. Said she of her career: "I knew enough...
...smart little child will wear, how to get along as a weekend guest, the importance of wearing hats that please men. Included in the verbal menu is a resume of Miss Chase's gay activities since she was last on the air-luncheon with Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolf), cocktails with Condé Nast, dinner with the Grand Duchess Marie...
...Pictures of Germans practicing rooftop exercises on a sort of huge "jungle gym" were released in the U. S. On the other side of the Channel the hand of General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, the British Army's new Commander in Chief (who in his time speared a wolf from the saddle), was seen in a new land-defense move made by Britain. Ripped out of roads and highway crossings, where they had been planted to deter invading Nazi war machines, were pillars and posts and upended rails-lest they impede the mobility of Sir Alan's defense...