Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There are three types of accents, Packard disclosed. First there is the broad A, or Hawvuhd group, comprising Back Bay and Park Avenue youths with a prep school background...
...wealthy ex-Governor, liberal George Earle, would soon be appointed to a post abroad, would not say where. "Ireland," said everybody else. As a Governor's wife, Mrs. Earle (see cut) said of her husband, "His career is my whole life, but I want to stay in the background...
California's Governor Olson called on 31-year-old brassy Mr. Smith after all others had failed. Paul Smith for once kept himself in the background, negotiated quietly with able, chubby President Francis Patrick Foisie of the Dock Checkers Employers Association, then with C.I.O.'s Bridges, who by last week was looking for a face-saving way out. What Paul Smith sold both sides was the proposition that everybody go back to work, let arbitration settle the controversy. So simple was this solution that San Franciscans wondered for the umpteenth time why Messrs. Foisie and Bridges...
...Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, who will be 19 in June, applied to Surrogate's Court for her daughter's 1940 living expenses: $52,000. The application read: "[Brenda] ... is a grown woman moving in the society in which, because of her parents' and grandparents' background, she has taken a definite place." To another young heiress...
...little too leisurely, perhaps, in the first half, quickens after the intermission, and Scarlett's visit to Rhett in the prison, and the Klan's revenge for the attack on her are overwhelmingly effective. The photography is often brilliant and the color is never in bad taste. The background music is well chosen. It is a movie to be discussed in superlatives, and from all indications, it will still be going strong (at 75e a seat) when our children graduate from Harvard...