Word: 77th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today young men may present themselves evenings at Finch's famed, chaste, grey stone entrance on East 77th Street and squire Finch's pretty girls around the town without a chaperone (at Finch a date is known as "the little man"). Mrs. Cosgrave does not expect her new plan to change the character of her school. Twinkles she: "Finch will continue to have snob appeal...
...Congresses, none had ever been held in lower esteem than the 77th. Many a citizen made a grim mental note to vote against his Congressman. For many a U.S. citizen it was all too easy to take out his general dissatisfaction on the 77th Congress. To many a citizen, Congress seemed a dreary collection of porcine clowns, of pompous pantaloons, always wrong or greedy or just stupid. Many a citizen remembered the marrow-chilling House draft-extension vote last August of 203-to-202, when one vote saved the nation's Army. Many a citizen remembered that Congress...
...House & Senate, and those few were somber and bitter. It was the day word came that Manila had fallen. Texas' Tom Connally uttered Congress' stammering epitaph: "We are a peaceful people. We were not expecting a war, we were not prepared for war. ..." The gavels banged. The 77th Congress of the U.S. ended its first session...
...77th Congress had started, in a thoroughly confused, sour mood. Republicans were sore at Franklin Roosevelt for getting himself elected to a third term. They were sore at Wendell Willkie because he had lost, because he supported the President's theme of aid to Britain. Democratic isolationists, Anglo-phobes, Southern reactionaries glared distrustfully at Mr. Roosevelt...
Died. Major General Robert Alexander, 77, commander of the U.S. 77th Division in its drive through the Argonne Forest; in The Bronx...