Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Putting her trust in her honey-blonde hair, a little seashore hipper-dipper, and the eye-brimming distinction she imparts to the plainest photographic studies, 20-year-old Gloria Wood, star-minded daughter of Director Sam Wood (Kitty Foyle), petitioned in Los Angeles court for permission to discard her cinemagic name, call herself just K. T. Stevens...
...based on a translation made by exiled English priests at Douai and Reims in the 16th Century. Seventy-two U.S. bishops have already urged Catholics in their dioceses to adopt the new revision. No Protestant denomination has as yet taken any comparable step in urging its members to discard the King James version for one of the several modernized translations offered in recent years...
Later that evening, which was bonny, clear-skied, and warm enough to discard topcoats, Hyde Park was lively with strollers and the Serpentine with boats, and a vendor at Marble Arch was briskly selling red rubber balls painted with the faces of Hitler and Mussolini. In Leicester Square crowds jammed the first anniversary showing of Gone With the Wind and the first week of Shaw's Major Barbara. On the radio, Sir Adrian Boult was conducting a memorial concert to Sir Hamilton Harty. Two hundred Harrod's employes carried home gas masks, after a gas test...
Interviewed yesterday afternoon in his luxuriously appointed quarters in the H.A.A., wild told the story of how he decided to discard his exciting existence on the News for the comparatively quiet occupation of handling releases for Harvard...
With sincerest appreciation for a start to discard the covering of deception which has increasingly prevailed upon the real facts, and a wish for more just triumphs of this kind. Robert E. Lincoln...