Word: great
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening day, 40,000 Houstonians gawked at the big "History of Texas" mural between the front doors, rode up & down the escalators, kept cash registers ringing. Although most middle-aged people still think of Woolworth's as a "Five and Dime," the Houston store last week showed how great the change has been behind the old familiar red front. There were canaries for $9.95, fishing rods and reels for $15, mechanical trains for $21.65 and bicycles...
Married. Sylvia Gould, 31, great-granddaughter of Jay ("Robber Baron") Gould who piled up one of the first great U.S. fortunes as a Civil War speculator and railroad tycoon, daughter of a onetime Italian governess in the Gould family; and Lieut. Commander (U.S.N.) Ernst Hoefer Jr., 29, of Sheboygan, Wis.; she for the third time, he for the first; after a false start two months ago when she broke the engagement on grounds that he refused to sign away dower rights to her estate; in Seager...
Died. Gargantua the Great, twentyish, for twelve years Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's "frightfully fiendish" star gorilla; of double pneumonia, cancer and complications; in his $10,000 air-conditioned cage in Miami...
...Unless somebody does or says something horribly mean to me," wrote Lafcadio Hearn to a friend, "I can't do certain kinds of work-the tiresome kinds, that compel a great deal of thinking...
...single eye of an octopus." A short (5 ft. 3), slight man with a scraggly mustache, he made some people think of "a distorted brownie." The nostrils of his long aquiline nose quivered constantly, picking up odors that most people could not smell at all. Odors were his great passion. During his New Orleans period, he translated every article he could find in French periodicals on odors, wrote innumerable essays of his own. In one of them he claimed he could distinguish between octoroons, quadroons and pure-blooded Africans by his sense of smell...