Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voter, taxpayer and lifelong resident of Washington state. I voted for assistance to the aged and blind people in this state. I did not do so "with something of the attitude of a nightclub sot," as you say. I am not a recipient of old-age assistance. You are a damn liar...
Even in the age of declining Supreme Court prestige, the appointment had its note of irony. In Franklin Roosevelt's vain but tumultuous campaign to pack the nation's highest court with added New Dealing justices, no man raised a louder voice for the White House enterprise than burly, boot-jawed "Shay" Minton. As a result of his signal service, he had been mentioned for just about every vacancy on the court that turned up in the past decade. But until Harry Truman broke the news last week, his name had hardly entered the speculation this time. Battle...
...daughter of Roy Bargy, orchestra leader and onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman, Jeanne got into show business at the age of 13 on Toledo's station WSPD ("It was pretty much the same show I do now"). After graduating from New York University, she scored a modest success touring the Midwest, playing and singing in cocktail lounges. Then she married Salesman Sid Landau ("I can't understand why people always laugh when I tell them Sid sells zippers") and moved to Brooklyn...
...working with him in St. Louis reject the common idea that a patient's intake of starches must be restricted; instead, they make the patient cut down on fats, to ease the load on the liver and to get his weight down to the ideal norm for his age and height...
Among the exhibits, however, there were still a few pieces to startle conservatives. Charles Eames's canvas-and-plastic chair with ventilated seat looked for all the world like an atomic-age version of a toilet seat. Florence Knoll's immense, pancake-thin air-foam bed, perched on spindly legs, had an insubstantial look that suggested uneasy napping. And too often, for all their inexpensive materials and simplified design, even the most agreable modern furnishings were higher-priced than the overdecorated, overstuffed period pieces most Americans are used...