Word: ams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Actually I am an exceedingly mild mannered person-a practitioner of peace, both domestic and foreign, a believer in the capitalistic system, and for my breakfast a devotee of scrambled eggs.
"I," said Harold LeClair Ickes in Washington last week, "am one of the few men around here who is not a candidate for President."
He did not actually say he would do it. "There's nothing coy about me. I usually answer when my mind's made up,'' he said. But for three weeks a procession of delegations and petitions from Chicago had been pouring in on him, trying to...
"It is almost silly," Odets went on, "to have to be defending the theme of love for a play. Popular songs and motion pictures are occupied with practically nothing else. But in a serious play ... it apparently strikes some as not being enough; it doesn't 'count.'...
"I am going to be so bold," concluded Chef Aymoz, "as to suggest that Oxford or Cambridge should found a chair in gastronomy for the study of the cuisine [and] research in nutrition."