Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said of him that he would respond sensibly to Tom Dewey's lofty speeches. Apparently he had been just as bored as he had looked, and not a little annoyed by Dewey's calm assumption that the result was in the bag. It was said of 'him that he only went in droves to hear Harry Truman because Harry Truman put on a good show. But politics is a show. Harry Truman, with his mistakes and his impulses and his earnestness, had turned out to be an interesting personality. He had often ranted like a demagogue...
...Interior Minister, while Hertta kept getting more important -next to Ana Pauker she was probably the leading woman Communist in Europe. By last week, after Leino had openly criticized Russia and suggested that the Communists use less violent tactics, Hertta had had enough. She picked up bag & baggage and moved out of his apartment to go and live with her mother. She still had friends: who had turned up in Finland but first husband Tuure, once again in high Kremlin favor and wearing the insignia of a Red army general. Last week he was in Helsinki, busily plotting a wave...
Died. Wilfred Meynell, 95, poet, essayist, discoverer of drug-addict Poet Francis Thompson; in Pulborough, England. With his poet-wife, the late Alice Meynell, he founded and for twelve years edited the literary review Merry England. In 1888, he received some verses written on blue sugar-bag paper by the starving Thompson, printed the contributions, rescued and cared for the poet for 19 years...
...eleven poems Pound wrote behind U.S. barbed wire have since become known as the "Pisan Cantos" and bring up the rear of his life work, The Cantos. The Cantos, now totaling 84, are a chaotic grab-bag in which the reader can find whatever he wishes, for Pound is both a poetic genius whose work influenced Eliot, Joyce and Yeats, and an intellectual crank who toadied to political cutthroats...
...restricted" officers' club. Knowing the effect this will have on white personnel, Gus Beale orders MPs to keep the Negroes out. Soon the U.S. press is ablaze with a garbled, press-service version of the story, while Washington, drawing back its skirts, coldly leaves Beale holding the bag. When the book ends, the storm has subsided as suddenly as it began. It is ready to break out again any day; but meanwhile Gus Beale has escaped by a hairsbreadth, Negro equality has been officially confirmed and white supremacy unofficially enforced, and the march to victory proceeds...