Word: rowse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind Two Doors. He usually eats breakfast on the sunny red-tiled loggia, practically naked ("not just in shorts, but often just wearing a handkerchief or something," says Vera). Then he dresses, plunges into his workroom, labors at a table that resembles an architect's and rivals Franklin Roosevelt...
Through the years, as Mackenzie King had plodded past Sir John A. Macdonald's Canadian record of 18 years, 11 months and 26 days as Prime Minister, and Sir Robert Walpole's British Empire record of 20 years, 10 months and 10 days (TIME, May 3), M.P.s had...
The Loved One is by no means the subtle and cold-blooded rage at the perversion of death and love which some subtle and raging people suppose it to be. It is Evelyn Waugh caught between laughter and vomiting. The story of the patriotic pretensions and fussy snobbishness of the...
For once, housewives had help that they liked. The girls liked the setup too. Only 25 of the first 2,000 have quit because of rows with employers. About 90% of them plan to stay where they are after their year's contract ends. (Exceptions: the 25 girls who...
Behind this picture lie many decades of experimentation with training quarters and procedures for the annual grind, longest crew race in the world. Although the crew rows distances up to on miles a day in practice, all the season's regular races are sprints, with lengths ranging from the Henley...