Word: wittedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ May Day was not a holiday in Germany, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's President Getulio Vargas celebrated May Day by treating Good-Will Tourist Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to a 9? lunch at a workers' restaurant. While they ate, loudspeakers blared Emily Post...
Few weeks ago needle-witted Tom Connally, senior Senator from Texas, blithely predicted that the 1941 tax bill would "just jerk 'em out of their shoes." Although the jerk won't come until March 15, 1942, last week the U.S. and Congress got their first clear look at...
With a fine crop of Washington socialites sitting under her domineering auctioneering spell, fat, party-witted Elsa Maxwell raised $10 for the R.A.F. by knocking down an alleged tuft of George III's beard.
Bald, sharp-witted Film Producer Kenneth Macgowan (In Old Chicago, Tin Pan Alley), who took a defense job in Washington last month, learned with dismay that his new title was: Director of Production in the Motion Picture Division of the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the...
Died. Nicholas ("Collective Security") Titulescu, 57, towering, trigger-witted Rumanian diplomat, picturesque pillar of the League of Nations in its palmy days, six times his country's pro-French, pro-democratic Foreign Minister, leader with Eduard Benes in the late Little Entente; of pernicious anemia resulting from tuberculosis; in...