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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1940
Page
5
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A compact list of crossword style clues links definitions from Maid of Orleans to various vocabulary items. Players infer answers spanning anatomy, geography, and old English terms, with some clues referencing historical figures and common phrases.
Ann Brown an orphan in a cold city meets a lonely young man wearing a white gardenia at the library. She recalls her mother modelled in New York and threads a tentative connection as they sit before the Blashfield painting and discuss pioneer life and their shared loneliness.
Ann misreads a charming stranger at an opening gallery and is humiliated when a gardenia at his lapel turns out to be identical to the old man’s. The scene spirals as she learns she was not meeting for romance and flees in embarrassment.
Uncle Ray explains how Louis XIV, crowned at age five, held real power only after Mazarin’s death, declaring I am the state. He describes his wars for French expansion into Flanders and Alsace, the long reign from age five, and the tale of the Man in the Iron Mask with notes on Antonio Mattioli.
Hollywood gossip recalls spats at parties including a man struck with a ginger ale bottle who swore it never broke, and Sally Eilers discussing parenting. Garson Kanin contemplates marriage amid many responses while Broadway’s Too Many Girls moves toward a film adaptation with no Hollywood names. Credits note Olivia de Havilland and Warner tensions settled, and 20th Fox previews Public Deb No 1 with Brenda Frazer consideration.
The article asks readers to identify five prominent men linked to the 1940 presidential race. Clues point to a glamor politician who was governor general of the Philippines, a New York congressman at the Oslo conference, a young rackets prosecutor, a speaker at the United Mine Workers convention in Columbus, and a president’s son.
A brief exchange reveals accusations of infidelity and financial motive amid rumors of a high profile separation. An executive dismisses the idea, while whispers quote a confidant calling the husband a louse and noting a divorce for wealth as the motive.
The era’s first specific European war loss hits Hollywood with the sinking of the Songa while studios buy works and line up stars. 20th Fox has acquired Oscar Schis gall’s I Married a Nezi and Darryl Zanuck vows no punches will be pulled in filming. George Raft divorce talks center on a half million settlement and future earnings. Jimmy Roosevelt seeks funds for production. The Hankin Brothers, Egyptians, plan to move to Hollywood to co star with Greta Garbo and Harpo Marx.
Dr Morris Fishbein discusses how hoarseness signals throat trouble and how modern methods allow many patients to regain speech after larynx removal. He cites a 30 patient survey: 18 learned to talk, 5 could whisper, 6 could not, with 17 resuming prior work.
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Answers cover guessing ages with tactful refusals, proper luncheon menu structure, introductions to mothers, balancing formality and friendliness in business letters, and correct wine pouring to half full. This compact advisory reflects practical etiquette tips.
The article offers simple old fashioned fixes such as removing wallpaper with warm alum water, tightening loose casters with adhesive tape, packing eggs in salt and fat, whitening linen with buttermilk, and treating enlarged pores with lukewarm water and borax.
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