Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Zoe Akins, 71, playwright (De-classee, The Greeks Had a Word for It), poet, novelist, screenwriter; of cancer; in Los Angeles. In 1935, Missouri-born Zoe Akins won a Pulitzer Prize for her Broadway adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, but despite her durable professional success she deplored "the tragedy of feminine careers." Writing for Hollywood was "not difficult," she said. "All you have to do is write six pages every day, then grab the money and run for the train...
...Urbi et orbi blessing, he noticed many clerics who had left the sealed-off conclave area to watch the occasion. Later he jokingly told them: "You have all just incurred excommunication. But I shall use my new authority to relieve you of it." Nevertheless he broke tradition by sending word to the astonished cardinals that instead of leaving the conclave, as is customary after the new Pope's election, he wanted them to remain there overnight...
Formidable Legacy. All over Venice, decked in flags to celebrate the second of its patriarchs to be elected Pontiff in 55 years, the word went round last week: "He will be a great Pope!" In Sotto il Monte the three remaining Roncalli brothers. Zaverio, 75, Alfredo, 69, and Giuseppe, 64, were having supper after a hard day's work when the big news came over their old radio. The rice soup grew cold while they listened; then as excited neighbors poured from their houses, the brothers hurried upstairs to dress up for the occasion. And in Sesto San Giovanni...
...word invented by Renaissance Art Expert Bernard Berenson to denote clients with uncounted millions...
...midgets. The story of an evilly empty man's decline, fall and ironic resurrection is told thoughtfully, and is worth reading. The author's language is sometimes pretentious, but it is several grades better than that of the other ad fictioneers, who evidently do not have enough word power left over after churning out all those...