Word: artemus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average man doesn't know much about psychiatry, but he knows what he dislikes and suspects about it. One psychiatrist, paraphrasing Artemus Ward, has said of his specialty: "In no other field of medical knowledge does the average man know so many things that...
...about that double meaning. There was no such thing. The gag that horrified Mr. Leech had jes' one single meaning. A few days later Gracie Allen used precisely the same gag on the air. American humorists going back from Chic Sale to Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward have all had fun with just such gags. Everybody laughed, nobody griped-just Leech...
Three weeks after Japan quit fighting, Under Secretary of the Navy Artemus L. ("Di") Gates sent his resignation to Harry Truman. The President asked him to help out a little longer. Big, quiet, forceful Di Gates had left the presidency of Manhattan's New York Trust Co. as soon as the nation seemed to be getting into trouble, had served the Navy for four years and three months, first as Assistant Secretary for Air, then as the No. 2 man in the secretariat. Last week Di Gates finally began clearing up his desk-the President had agreed...
...Richard S. Edwards, on the one hand, and brilliant H. (for Herman) Struve Hensel, also a graduate of Princeton, ex-Wall Street attorney, on the other. Roosevelt lifted Hensel out of the Navy's Legal Department into an Assistant Secretaryship. There are many and various men around him: Artemus L. Gates, onetime Yale football captain, Navy pilot in World War I, ex-president of the New York Trust Co., a passionate airman and Forrestal's under secretary; political-minded John L. Sullivan (no kin to Boston's late Strong Boy), onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
Ernie King was opposed. It would take a hefty task force to move him (such as Navy Secretary Forrestal and President Truman combined), but such a task force was being assembled. One sparkplug of it was Assistant Secretary Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, who last week was boosted to Under Secretary, a spot in which he can make his voice heard. A thrice-decorated World War I pilot, "Di" Gates is a red-hot airman...