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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
69: ...[[Thomas Adams (architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
70: *[[Tony Adams (actor)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1940), British actor - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
27: ... at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the royal family to actually s...
66: .... This is one reason why it is considered highly unlikely that she will ever [[abdicate]]. Like her mo...
70: The only public issue on which Elizabeth makes her views ...
98: ... II]] these proceedings were deemed to have been unlawful. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
13: ...th]] who was enraged that the homely Eleanor not only snagged her cousin Franklin as a husband, but th...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
37: ...her old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democra... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ... to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her ...
7: ... she ever lost in the state of Maine. (Hathaway only served one term in the Senate; he was defeated i...
11: ...jected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate Republican Conferen... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchis...
21: ...th Czolgosz's actions. Goldman had met Czolgosz only once, briefly, several weeks before, where he ha...
41: ...oldman died of a stroke in [[Toronto]] on May 14, 1940. The U.S. [[Immigration and Naturalization Servic...
45: ...ion]] can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the means used to further it be identical in s...
51: ...he ruler. If it is the Russian tsar, I most certainly believe in dispatching him to where he belongs. ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
11: ...aldeman-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as ...
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ...
19: ...er died in 1966 in [[Tucson, Arizona]] at age 87 only a few months after the landmark [[Griswold v. Co...
31: ...d of exhausting her system, with the results not unlike the effects of masturbation and debauchery.
47: ...om/swtaboo/taboos/ms_apwp.html]. Then considered enlightened in some circles, today such measures are ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
13: ...is probably not among the greatest, but she certainly is in the category of the 20th century great ima...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]])
60: ...ature.com/virginia_woolf/ Read her literature at online-literature.com]
61: .../etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/ Online editions of her works] from [http://etext.libr... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...s. Already a star, she performed in a skirt made only of [[banana]]s, often accompanied by her pet [[l...
17: ...enormous staff in a castle in France. (Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an inci...
21: ...ly binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
12: ...orter]], [[Jerome Kern]], [[Johnny Mercer]] (the only songbook devoted soley to a lyricist) the Kern a...
112: *[[Media:How High The Moon.ogg|Download sample]] of "How High the Moon"
113: *[[Media:April In Paris.ogg|Download sample]] of "April in Paris" by Fitzgerald wit... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
36: ...e was swindled out of her earnings and died with only $0.70 in the bank and $750 on her person. At th... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
9: ...ns]] into Poland. Arriving in [[Warsaw]], she vainly pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[...
15: ...the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|French]] [[consul]]. Only German spies, some Polish intelligence officers ...
20: ... It seems therefore that Kowerski's loyalty has only been called into question because of these instr...
26: ...ed from substantial action. Her situation would only change in [[1944]], in a turn of events that wou... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
7: ...rench officer. Shortly after the birth of their only child, Tania, he was killed at the [[Battle of E... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
6: In the early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her fat...
10: ...ved in [[Haiti|Haitian]] [[Vodoun|voodoo]]. Not only did she film many hours of [[Vodoun|voodoo]] [[r... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ... Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular s...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: In [[1940]], Ball met Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while...
18: ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' was not only a star vehicle for Lucille Ball, but a way for h...
56: ...ed... with the inevitable hilarious result, made only the more funny by the alliterative, tongue twist... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
28: She was married only once, to actor [[John Emery]] from 1937-1941.
42: ... live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
33: * [[June Night]] (1940) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
11: ...ward|Oscar]] nomination. The film, which was the only time that Davis and Crawford ever worked togethe...
17: Davis's only natural-born daughter was by her third husband, ...
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
19: ... [[Great Neck, New York]]. The producer had suddenly fired the play's original leading lady and asked...
50: ... working-class machismo. Tracy seemed to be the only one Hepburn would allow to tame her. When [[Jos...
70: ...Mrs. Venable in [[Tennessee Williams]]'s ''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' (1959) and as Mary Tyrone in the...
129: ===1940s===
130: * ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]'' ([[1940]])—[[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Ac...
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