Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Busman's Holiday. In Moscow, Idaho, Mayor W. L. Anderson suspended two policemen for letting delegates to a police officers' convention speed through town at 2:30 a.m. with sirens shrieking...
Meat. Best home news of the week to many a citizen was Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson's prediction that beef would go off the ration lists within a few weeks. Reasons: 1) a heavy run of cattle; 2) Army suspension of "set-aside" orders by which it got first call. The pork outlook is not so bright, but Clinton Anderson thought that all meat rationing .might be ended by fall; if not, point values at least could be lowered...
Pompous Labor Lord Strabolgi (the tenth of his line) backslapped portly Labor Lord Quibell (first of his line), an ex-Midlands bricklayer. Lord and Lady Woolton (he top-hatted, she bejeweled) nodded to Sir John and Lady Anderson (he in formal cutaway, she in wedge sandals). Opposition Leader Winston Churchill, in striped pants and spotted bow tie, came with Anthony Eden, magnificent in formal clothes and studied carelessness...
...embarrassed management of the hotel had been chiefly guilty of spineless judgment. The hotel had never before drawn a color line. In the past such notable Negroes as Singer Marian Anderson and Actor Paul Robeson have lodged and dined in public there...
Sheaves to Rye. Three trombonists-blond Eddie Anderson (from Sonny Dunham's band), slicked Norman Conley (Eddie Stone's) and curly-haired Chuck Maxon (Paul Whiteman's)-growled "Pedal G," their lowest possible note. The reeds began to wail. When the melody of the old hymn, Bringing in the Sheaves, roared through, Brick nodded happily: "It's in there." He lit a cigaret, drank a glass of water and visited the control room, all the time directing the band with his pinkie, and rocking his head like a strutting turkey gobbler...