Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus began the homeward journey from Europe of the U.S. dead of World War II. The bodies of the 5,599 men and one woman (an Army nurse) were to be repatriated to each of the 48 states. Mostly they were the fallen of the Aachen campaign and the Battle of the Bulge...
...After its third biennial "good looks" survey, the Woman's Home Companion reported that 93% of its women readers now use lipstick (v. only 85% in 1945), that 93% use "antiperspirants and deodorants...
...plays it to a fare-thee-well is England's durable matinee idol, 54-year-old Ivor Novello. A kind of poor woman's Noel Coward, Novello also wrote the play and composed its half dozen hit songs. As playwright, he instinctively senses the emotional desires of a woolgathering audience. As composer, he sets his public's daydreams to soft, sugary music. As actor he hams it for all it is worth...
Unfortunately, this simple story of faith is embellished with cliches. When the heroine "gets into trouble" and the hero volunteers to make an honest woman of her, things really get out of hand. Expert performances by Muriel Smith and William Veasey fail to halt the runaway...
Commuter Campuses. This fall, practically every college in the U.S., crammed with ex-G.I.s, feels like the old woman who lived in a shoe. But California, whose shoe is the biggest, feels the pinch as badly as any. Last week at Berkeley, the narrow off-campus streets reaching out from the 300-foot Campanile were choked with cars from all over the Bay region...