Word: marianna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collector's Item. In Little Rock, Forrest City and Marianna, Ark. and in Kosciusko, Miss., police searched for the pipe-organ "repairmen" who had stolen pipes from organs in each of the four towns...
...exactly realizing that the nuisance is, quite possibly, permanent. TIME'S Paul O'Neil wrote "The Last Traffic Jam" (Dec. 15, 1947) which, by obvious exaggeration, got over a point that was, in a way, news to nobody. The story's details were not fantasy. Researcher Marianna Albert rode in taxis for a whole day to get the kind of specifics that made the story. Out of the day she got one quote, well worth the trouble. Said a Manhattan cabbie: "We're beat. We got expressions just like the people in Europe. It used...
Agrarian Problems. In 1943 Miss Anderson married Orpheus Fisher, an architect who works in Danbury, Conn. Now they live, not far from Danbury, on a beautiful, 105-acre farm, "Marianna." Inside, the handsome, white frame, hillside house has been remodeled by Architect Fisher. He also designed the big, good-looking studio in which Miss Anderson practices...
When not on tour or practicing, Miss Anderson dabbles in farming. She sells grade-A vegetables to the local market, regrets that Marianna, like many farms run by hired help, costs more than it brings in. And there are other problems in the agrarian life. This year, Miss Anderson was much puzzled when the big (but unbred) daughter of her registered Guernsey cow did not give milk. "Heifers have to be freshened before you can milk them," she explains with some astonishment. "Did you know that...
...September 1942, the dour, thickset man was first seen around Mrs. Marianna Mayer's James Street lodginghouse. His 12-by-16-ft. room on the parlor floor contained a daybed, couch, wardrobe, desk and a three-foot shelf of romantic German novels. Each morning he left the house at 8:30 for his job in Newark's Downtown Club. There he worked as a bookkeeper, and did not have even the opportunities a bus boy had to overhear talk among the club's members-mostly business executives engaged in making ships, radars, airplane parts...