Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like him to know that heads and right hands are not easy to come by. The latter I reluctantly left in one of his well-designed automobile interiors, caught between the arm rest and window handle, one balmy summer day. The head, which I fortunately salvaged, I still carry around in my pocket. It was removed at the request of the driver, who could not see out of the rear window through the rear-view mirror. I am writing this left-handed from the hip. W. S. SHERMAN Chicago...
...Having covered my share of wars, insurrections, uprisings, etc., I was prepared for a certain amount of trouble en route. But the Burma rebellion now in progress broke out after we had left, and the minor war around Kashmir didn't bother our seeing the Taj Mahal (a not the least overrated spectacle) at all. We had been warned that Cairo was no place for tourists this year, but, aside from one explosion near our quarters when some Arabs planted a bomb in a Jewish-owned department store, we made it safely out to the pyramids and back. Before...
...rolled on to Jackson, Mich., where the power & glory of the state's Republicanism-Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson, Governor Kim Sigler-appeared. So did Mrs. George Dewey, the candidate's mother, whom he calls "Mater." She cried.: "Where's my Tommy?" With one arm around Mater and one around his wife, the candidate stood on the rear platform. "Was there ever such a lucky man as I am?" he asked the train-side crowd. "I have a wonderful mother and a wonderful wife and they are both here with...
...where he once sang in the choir. His authoritative baritone rang out clearly above the rest of the voices in the congregation. Afterwards he rode back to his mother's comfortable, old-fashioned house on Oliver Street and ate a turkey dinner. Neighbors and newsmen stood outside scuffing around in the "fallen leaves. Mrs. George Dewey's elderly roomer, Ed Stanard, a retired mail carrier, modestly kept out of sight, getting his meals elsewhere...
...been delayed, helping to thrash out a human-rights charter for the world, combining common sense with an air of guilelessness to get agreement where no agreement seemed possible. She brought flights of oratory to earth with such innocent remarks as "I am probably the least learned person around this table, so I have thought of this article in terms of what the ordinary person would understand." In a two-hour wrangle with Indian and Russian delegates, she insisted that such words as "caste" and "class" were "outgrown." "We admit caste and class distinctions do exist...