Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, frustrated Lawyer Hallinan tried by every trick he knew to rattle Schomaker, and found himself instead an unwilling straight man in Shoes Schomaker's comic routine. Hallinan tried to show that Shoes had too good a memory of events that took place years ago: "You even said Bridges got out on the left side of the car and you got out on the right." "I guess Bridges was more left than I was," cracked the witness...
...West was facing a portentous decision: Should it prepare to place arms into the hands of defeated Germany...
Hardly was the conflict over the Catholic unions settled when a new fight broke out-about the site of the new organization's headquarters. The T.U.C.'s Arthur Deakin fought for London. Some Americans favored almost any place but London. The squabble was a reflection of a deeper rift. The Americans considered the British T.U.C. leadership to be undynamic, bogged down in home worries and tied to the British Labor government's colonial and foreign policies...
...some such place as the revolving door of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, at one time or another, Suzy Stephenson might well have passed Cristina de Borbón. Suzy is a pertly pretty ex-model from Birmingham, Ala. Cristina, a long-lashed Spanish beauty who has 27 other given names, is a relative of the late Alfonso XIII. Both Suzy and Cristina were involved last week with rich South Americans named Antenor. Suzy was on her way in the door, Cristina...
...Game Hunter Osa Johnson announced that she will take along her mother, frail, silver-haired Mrs. Belle Lieghty, 73, of Chanute, Kans., on her next hunting trip into the wilds of Africa early in 1950. Their goal: bagging a gorilla to take the place of famed Gargantua, who died last month in Florida...