Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nonetheless, as a reward for Wright's "desire to help medical science," Judge McDonald let him off with a light sentence-two to twelve years in the penitentiary (instead of the 40 years to life Wright might have expected to get as a habitual offender...
...round. White-maned Frank Lloyd Wright's unconventional plan for a new Unitarian church in Madison, Wis. was enthusiastically described last week by the pastor of Madison's First Unitarian Society. Unitarian Wright's idea of a " 'unit'arian" church involved combining steeple, auditorium and parish house into a unit under one roof (which would serve as "steeple"). The result looked like half a pyramid, vertically sliced; some people might have to be told that it was a church...
Died. Richard Robert Wright,* 92, slave boy who grew up to be the top U.S. Negro banker, president of Georgia State Industrial College, a U.S. Army major in the Spanish-American War, and friend of every U.S. President since Hayes; in Philadelphia. Spry, spare Wright was founder and active head of Philadelphia's Citizens & Southern Bank & Trust Co. vengefully named after a Georgia bank that had once insulted his daughter...
...Richard Wright, author of Native...
...Trouble with Women (Paramount) is a topic that greatly interests Ray Milland, a professor of psychology, who keeps sounding off on the subject, with unflattering details. Teresa Wright, a star reporter, is assigned to work up some newspaper feature copy ridiculing the professor. She enrolls as a student, hounds him through bachelor's quarters and classrooms, and outsmarts his chilly fiancée, Rose Hobart, at the cat-&-cat game. In some bewilderment, psychologist and girl reporter fall in love. Typical side dish: a bespectacled adolescent, complete with outsized Adam's apple, who falls for Miss Wright. Best...