These Women Let's Find Some Brand New Similes
Cynthia Lowry urges modernizing stale expressions. She argues many popular similes no longer fit today’s world and suggests updating language with sharper, more accurate phrases.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1951
Page
2
Cynthia Lowry urges modernizing stale expressions. She argues many popular similes no longer fit today’s world and suggests updating language with sharper, more accurate phrases.
A German sinologist reports Mao Zedong based modern campaigns on Sun Fu's 2 500 year old strategy of deception and secrecy. The manual urges feigned weakness, trickery, controlled violence, face saving, and liberal espionage as core tactics.
Special representative from the Public Relations Department of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. will address the Kiwanis members at tomorrow’s weekly luncheon at the George Washington Hotel. The talk titled Your Railroads and You will be introduced by Ronald Smyre, program chairman.
The Presbyterian Church hosted the second of four Spiritual Emphasis Week meetings for Winchester youths. Rev. Keith Crim spoke on marriage as a Christ church relationship and God as Father. Discussion groups led by Rev. E T. Clark Jr. and Crim considered modern home needs and solutions. Tonight the First Evangelical United Brothers Church hosts with supper at 6.
Police intensified the hunt after 23 year old Lewana Newman was found slain beside a north Miami Beach road. Deputies Marines and civilians scoured dunes and back roads while ballistics checked several pistols and revolvers tied to friends. Knights of Pythias pledged to support the child as the case labeled a local robbery murder.
A quiniela is a Spanish term used in dog racing for a ticket that combines two dogs in the same race. For the quiniela to win, both dogs must finish ahead of all others.
Rita Hayworth is headed to Reno this week to divorce Prince Aly Khan. Lawyers say no more talks with Moslem prince representatives over finances. She seeks 3 million dollars for their 19 month old daughter Yasmin. Aly offers a 250 thousand dollar trust fund, which she finds unacceptable.
U S Ambassador Alan G Kirk announced he will return to the United States early in October. Reports in Moscow say he may leave before winter by agreement with the State Department. Speculation says he could be moved to Germany or Japan, with rumors that Ralph Bunche might succeed him in Moscow.
HAL Boyle colors office life with a playful survey of twelve morning entry types. From the pedestrian philosopher to the rugged individualist, the piece links quirks to how workers arrive, hinting at shared office archetypes and daily rituals.
Two Birmingham Cave and Crag Society explorers Lewis Railton and William Little were rescued from Ogof Ffydda Cavern in Wales after being trapped by floods for three days. Divers breached the flooded chamber and a chain of 85 rescuers moved them to safety. both men unharmed and supported by a miner lamp.
A serviceman not assigned and en route to or from a permanent assignment is termed a casual. He may be exiting a hospital to join his unit or moving between organizations.
Early today two big trucks collided four miles east of Frederick on Route 40. A tractor-trailer driven by Carl Thomas Paschal of Dubin Va. and a stake-bodied truck driven by Elmer Lester Butts of Martinsburg W Va caused about 10500 in damage. Both drivers had minor injuries. Traffic was halted while wreckage was cleared.
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A 70 year old Hoboken iron moulder John Pilgrim teetered on a ninth floor Macy's ledge during evening rush hour spillover. He fell onto a metal awning and to the sidewalk below as onlookers watched. Pilgrim's widow Anna said he had been ill recently. He was in town to shop on his day off.
A sales directory listing auctions by Sam Mc Carty at Crowsers Warehouse on August 30 at 1 PM featuring complete household furnishings. Ada Renner at Rennertown one mile west of Winchester on August 31 at 1 PM with furniture and appliances. a September sale in Ryville at Marvin's Chapel offering live stock and household goods.
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