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...Committee had nothing whatsoever to do with any of the Liberty Loan drives except a protest against many of the "atrocity" posters gotten out by the people in charge...
...subjects for this mural precise Alfred Shriver knew exactly whom he wanted: ten ladies whom he had known and admired from his youth up. Some of them: Mrs. Bruce Gotten, called by the Baltimore Sun "one of the most beautiful women that ever grew up in this city"; Mrs. J. Lee Tailor, who in middle age still had "the most exquisite coloring, with perfect Titian hair and eyes the color of violets"; Mrs. James Brown Potter, who did not marry until she was 38, when the Sun enthused: "The most beautiful violet grown in Richmond was named for her. . Possibly...
...With characteristic British "refusal to be moved attitude," we all changed for dinner, although it meant sitting in a very cool sitting-room afterwards, without a fire and washing in a pitch dark bathroom, as they had not gotten their curtains back from the cleaners and we couldn't show a light. (Curse Hitler...
...clip: raw wool skyrocketed some 60% for the benefit of wool growers; yarns were up 45% to 50%, sweetening the pot for the spinners; and when the U. S. Army went into the market for uniform fabrics, it found prices up about 30% over the bids it could have gotten Sept. 1, indicating that the mills were sharing the war profit...
...patterns his ideals after those of Lincoln. In fact, a bust of Lincoln reigns over his office desk. None of the acting in the picture is exceptional, and none of the parts are cast perfectly, but all in all, the picture gives the audience a gratifying experience of having gotten something off its chest vicariously, which might never be said in actual life...