Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...royal family, Princess Margaret paid her first official visit to Oxford, planted a tree and declared the Imperial Forestry Institute a going concern. A new car for Princess Elizabeth arrived, a dark green Daimler "consort" saloon model (price: ?1,690) complete with radio, air conditioning unit and make-up compartment. Up from Malta came father Philip to join the family in the white-and-gold music room of Buckingham Palace for another christening. Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first cousin of Princess Elizabeth, took their...
George Marshall, laundryman-owner of the Washington Redskins, got in on the play. Said Marshall: "It's hard to understand why Blaik would make such comments when he coaches one of the few thoroughly professional teams in existence. Mr. Blaik's references about football would carry greater weight if Army hadn't run out on its traditional rival, Notre Dame...
Despite his 87 years, Connie Mack, finishing his 50th year as Philadelphia manager, could read the red ink without spectacles. And though financial control of his club had been vested in his sons, Earle and Roy, "Mr. Mack" could still make a decision. Last week, he made the hardest one of his life: he stepped aside. Then he named Coach Jimmy Dykes as the new manager. Said Connie firmly: "I am not quitting because I'm too old. I am quitting because I think the people want me to quit." Still president of the A's, Connie added...
...Bloomington, Ind., Indiana's hustling Hoosiers over a sluggish Notre Dame, 20-7, to make the Irish (after their earlier defeat by Purdue) seem the third best team in Indiana...
Cozens was long neglected by connoisseurs, who preferred more precise artists. But as George Bernard Shaw predicted in 1883,* photography has come to make laboriously naturalistic art look silly, and so Cozens' reputation has waxed. He is now recognized, as British Critic Paul Oppe puts it, to be "an artist whose work is valuable in itself apart from time and place-some indeed would call it the most exciting and original in all English landscape painting...