Word: veronica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vatican confirmed that mellowing (57) Cinemactor Gary (Return to Paradise) Cooper, previously an Episcopalian, became a Roman Catholic early in April. Glowed his Roman Catholic wife Veronica, married to Coop for 26 years: "He's very happy about...
Around the walled ring at Xajay bull-breeding ranch in Queretaro, Mexico this week, cowhands watched critically as a young American in blue jeans and baseball cap whirled his scarlet cape in a long veronica, smoothly led the charging young practice heifer past him, its horns coming within inches of his legs. Though still a little stiff from a goring received in a fight a month ago, Baron Clements Jr., 20, of Kilgore, Texas shows signs of becoming the best U.S.-born matador in the alien art of bullfighting since the heyday of Brooklyn's Sidney Franklin 25 years...
...solid Roundhead-which is perhaps one reason why modern Britain rests its institutions in an all-powerful Parliament but reserves its affections for a powerless monarchy. In Volume II of her great history, which carries on from The King's Peace, Historian C. V. (for Cicely Veronica) Wedgwood touches this national nerve of double loyalty and lets it enliven what would otherwise be dreary years of incessant skirmishes intermixed with interminable diplomatic maneuverings. Only the Cavalier and Roundhead legends can give life to it all, and this because, remarkably enough, they prove to be almost as factually correct...
...Geraldine Veronica ("Jerry") Stutz, 33, vice president since 1955 of I. Miller retail stores, 17-store subsidiary of General Shoe Corp., one of the world's largest shoe companies, was named president of Henri Bendel Inc., swank Manhattan specialty store with annual sales volume of about $5,000,000. She succeeds Ben Willingham, General Shoe vice president on temporary loan to Bendel, who will remain as director. Tall (5 ft. 6 in.), svelte (no Ibs.) and unmarried, Jerry Stutz was educated in Chicago's St. Scholastica convent school, won a dramatics scholarship to Mundelein College, where she switched...
When this sort of thing was offered to U.S. moviegoers in the first film version (1942) of Graham Greene's thriller, This Gun for Hire, many of them were deeply impressed. It was felt that Hollywood had passed a milestone and that He (Alan Ladd) and She (Veronica Lake) were the latest and the greatest. In the interval, however, most customers have learned, from Hollywood's mistakes, the difference between the touchingly insane and the pathetically inane, and this remake is less apt to frazzle nerves than to tickle funny bones...