Word: worn
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Renegade Democrat. If Candidate Willkie had any inkling of all this, last week, he showed small concern. The only gloom in Rushville, Ind. was a deep, cool shade beneath black walnut and apple trees, out in back of t ie 80-year-old worn brick house on Harrison Street which he had rented as a temporary residence. Wearing carpet slippers, Willkie lolled under the trees, supremely confident of victory...
Buck Teeth, Cauliflower Ears. A popular branch of veterinary medicine is dog and cat beautification. Dr. Alan C. Secord of Toronto corrects buck teeth in dogs with wire braces, like those worn by children. Dr. Hadley Carruthers Stephenson of Cornell said that dogs may develop cauliflower ears by "scrubbing" their itching ears on the ground. Remedy: plastic surgery...
...dons jodhpurs for the office, an admiral's uniform for a cruise on his splendid white yacht, once the property of Oilman Edward Doheny. It is a legend in Manila that he planned to have a guard of honor for the Malacanan dressed in uniforms copied after those worn at Buckingham Palace, dropped the idea only after earnest advice from friends. He is the adored father of two grown-up daughters. Maria Aurora ("Baby") and Zenaida ("Mini"), and a small son. Manuel Jr. ("Nonong"). Mrs. Quezon, dignified and portly, keeps matron...
...little mayor, in a baggy dark suit and clutching a worn brown drummer's dispatch case, was a picture of determination as the Council members strode off to lunch. Afterward Prime Minister King led them to Parliament House. On the way up the front steps Mr. King stumbled and Fiorello LaGuardia darted to pick him up. The Council retired into the long, narrow, oak-paneled Liberal Smoking Room (No. 497), and set about considering the strategic possibilities of eastern Canada and the northeastern U. S. The proposed lease of British bases to the U. S. was largely outside their...
...floor. So many Democrats stayed away from the House that Administration captains had to postpone a crucial vote on the bill empowering the President to mobilize the National Guard, finally got it passed (342-to-33). But habitues of the Senate galleries seldom failed to see a worn, bent figure in white, listening intently, some times speaking, constantly interjecting query and quibble. He was Nebraska's 79-year-old George W. Norris...