Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the week the House was in a minor pandemonium, with members milling around, gliding in & out of doors, haranguing one another, jostling down the aisle to have their noses counted. In the midst of what looked like a county fair, Administration forces were making good at last on a major Truman campaign promise: federal help in building homes for the country's ill-housed...
Judge Reeves coolly shut him off. As Judy and Archie left the courtroom they were surrounded by a mob of 500 people, pushing, shoving, yelling. "Let me get a look at the hussy," demanded an old woman. "She ought to get a rope around her neck, that's what! I was a yeomanette in the first World War," said another...
...AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE NEWS...
...Pals. Hunt hotly denied that he had ever used any influence. He was "just an errand boy," he said, helping small businessmen to find their way around Washington's federal bureaus. Of course, he knew Harry Vaughan and had entertained him at a few cocktail parties, but he wouldn't think of asking him, or his other friends, to influence Government contracts. Though Harry Vaughan readily admitted their friendship, many of the other "friends" smiling down from Hunt's office walls promptly said that they didn't know him. They pointed out that it was easy...
...religious decline deplored by Eliot does not ruffle Lewis, who believes that "Christianity, as a unifier, became a bad joke long ago." The loss of regional differences and "roots," lamented by Eliot, is a joy to Lewis, who holds that "no American worth his salt should go looking around for a root...