Word: etta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bouquet. In Walhalla, S.C., Etta Jackson won a suspended sentence after explaining to the court that the twelve half-gallon jugs of bootleg whisky dug up in her garden were placed there only to make the flowers grow better...
...life force in other than material terms demanded a religious justification of his views. Not until "The Bulwark" did he discover one. Then, he saw a possible solution in the Quaker doctrine of "the inner light" which animated the life of Solon Banes, and which moved his daughter Etta to realize "the love and peace involved in consideration for others." In this frame, the study of Brahmanism becomes merely another buttress to the synthesis of religion and communism. When Dreiser has Berenice declare that "One must live for something outside one's self, something ... to answer the needs...
Also valuable war books, though not battle books, were: Tokyo Record (Otto Tolischus, $3); In Peace Japan Breeds War (Gustav Eckstein, $2.50); Japan's Military Masters (Hillis Lory, $2.50); Paris-Underground (Etta Shiber, $2.50) The Serbs Choose War (Ruth Mitchell, $2.75); They Shall Not Have Me (Jean Hélion...
...cast is practically the same as that which held sway on Broadway for almost a solid year in '42. Tod Duncan acts and sings a human, impressive Porgy, and Etta Moton, while lacking some of the physical characteristics needed to show Boss as the walking bundle of sex the composer intended her to be, has the voice and acting ability to make up for her weaknesses...
Died. Julia Etta Willkie, 57, Wendell Willkie's versatile elder sister; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bridgeport, Conn. The family's firstborn, she majored in Greek at Indiana U. (summa cum laude, '08), taught languages at Indiana's Manchester College after postgraduate philolo-gizing in Europe. She translated for the U.S. Government during World War I, took a law degree (1916) and shared the Elwood practice of her father, later worked in Ontario as a skilled bacteriologist. At the time of her death she headed the priorities section of United Aircraft's Bridgeport division...