Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Washington, Elmira Wickenden, 57, became the first nurse and the third woman to receive the Medal for Merit,* the highest honor that the nation can bestow on civilians for wartime service. Said she: "This medal was not awarded to me; it was given in recognition of the fine work done by American nurses...
Canadians didn't like it. In Ottawa, a woman paraded on Sparks Street with a sign reading: BREADKNIVES STAB HOUSEWIVES. In Toronto other housewives wired Prime Minister King that decontrol of flour was "an unforgivable crime against the people." An Ottawa councilman cried: "We are losing the peace. ... It is such things as this that give rise to Communism." Labor organizations warned that higher prices would inevitably mean higher wages. Sean Edwin, a Montreal Gazette columnist, cracked: "If the ... trend continues, dollars to doughnuts will be even money...
...Noggins, a stout, pawky woman, came out to Canada before the first World War and settled near Saanichton, on Vancouver Island. She has an uncle in Liverpool, a cousin in Seattle, but her best friend is whimsical Columnist-Editor Bruce Hutchison, who lives near Saanichton too, and who helps run the Winnipeg Free Press by remote control...
...first time in its history, however, the Met would spend good money for Picassos. The two it chose were from eras when Picasso was painting in a classic style: the Woman in White, painted in 1923, and the 1905 Coiffure. The Met also agreed to buy from the Modern three Seurat drawings, paintings by Signac, Cézanne, Redon, Rouault and Matisse; sculptures by Maillol, Despiau and Kolbe, and a raft of U.S. folk art-all for $191,000. That would give the Modern more money to spend on contemporaries and relative unknowns-who might some day become "classic...
...student of famed Atonalist Arnold Schonberg, Eisler won Vienna's Academy of Music prize for composition in 1924. Among his U.S. film scores: The Woman on the Beach, Rain. He was exiled from Germany in 1933, is scheduled to testify about himself this week before the House Committee on Un-American Activities...