Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hallowed Word. Then he turned serious. "I have had every honor to which any man could aspire. There is no place on the whole earth except here in America where all the sons of man could have this chance in life ... I have worked in governments of free men, of tyrannies, of Socialists and of Communists. I have met with princes, kings, despots, and desperadoes. I have seen the squalor of Asia, the frozen class barriers of Europe. And outstanding everywhere to these great masses of people there was a hallowed word-'America.' To them...
...have provincial leaders, and last week Ottawa admitted that it had heard some of them. Prompted by the oratory of British Columbia's Premier Byron ("Boss") Johnson at the Liberal Convention, it promised to call a Dominion-provincial highway conference this fall. Because the British North America Act leaves the problem of highways to the provinces, Ottawa was not ready to do much more than confer. Besides, it wanted the provinces to bear at least half the cost of any highway built...
...were always out on the surface, which was one reason all the fans thought they knew and understood him. Even when the late Jimmy Walker gave him a talking-to before a banquet, the Babe gulped, and with enormous tears rolling down his enormous face, promised the kids of America he would reform. He tried to. But nothing could stop him from living handsomely...
...Angeles, Lauritz Melchior announced with a Heldentenor's roar that he would put on opera if the Met wouldn't. Said he: "It's a scandal, a disaster. The eyes of the world are turned to America and the greatest country in the world cannot even have an opera house! It looks as if we're only interested in jazz and crooning and all the semi-things...
Nature Boy. Unlike Marse Henry Watterson and his famous "to hell with the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns," Wallace has never been known for outspoken editorials on politics. But no one ever doubted where Uncle Tom stood on conservation, good will toward Latin America, snakes (he was a live-&-let-live man), or steel traps (he thought them inhumane). His most famous campaign was a five-year struggle which saved Cumberland Falls from a utilities syndicate headed by Sam Insull...