Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inquired, and Sharland, smiling wanly, said, "Of course not." Gaylord took an immediate fancy to Sharland and spent most of the 45-minute session perched on top of her head. Things were complicated further by the presence of Tallulah's Pekingese and a Hungarian sheep dog, who tore around the room, got tangled in Sharland's lighting extensions and occasionally chased each other between her legs...
...A.F.L. longshoremen in another. For the better part of the night Ching's aides shuttled from the weary group of operators, presided over by New York Shipping Association Chairman John V. Lyon, to the grim group of 125 labor delegates, presided over by Longshore Boss Joseph P. Ryan. Around 3 a.m., the operators gave...
...principle, not an opportunist, not a warlord, not (his enemies finally admitted) a grafter. His principles, however, are not always clear or consistent. The conflict between the old and new, unresolved in China, is also unresolved in China's Chiang. He had been right so often, when those around him were wrong, that taking advice did not come easily to him. Three times-from Canton, from Sian, and from Chungking-he had fought his way out of hopeless situations. Such an experience might breed arrogance, and many believe that Chiang is arrogant, narrow, unimaginative-the victim...
Said Economic Czar Miguel Miranda last week: "The future of Argentina, as I see it, is very brilliant, because our products are bound to give us all we need." At such talk many an Argentine businessman winced. All around were signs that the economy of the country was sick and getting sicker week by week...
...grew older, Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, once a dandy of dandies, became a surly misanthrope. He turned his favorite Delacroix to the wall so that others could not enjoy it. Invited out to dinner, he insisted that there be no dogs around, and no flowers on the table, lest other guests indulge in sentimentalities. This was the Degas whom the French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry came to know, an old man raging at his enemies and riding alone on the tops of buses...