Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beefsteak & Cantaloupes. Then, turning on his opponent, he portentously berated him for not discussing national issues, spoke as though the fate of the nation hinged on the mayoralty race. When the Republican New York Sun reported happily that a big bookie 'named Frank Erickson had attended a beefsteak dinner given in honor of the mayor and Democratic Senatorial Candidate Herbert Lehman, O'Dwyer had a strange & wonderful answer. "Lehman," he said indignantly, "has been framed...
...atmosphere was informal. In the corridors of Jefferson County's big stone courthouse, the gossip and laughter were loud. There were strike-idled coal miners and old men who shave only once every three days and carry canes. Klansmen posed for pictures smiling broadly, friend-ly-like. Inside the courtroom, mild old Judge Robert J. Wheeler fingered his speckled white mustache. Occasionally he spat delicately into his cuspidor...
...motion., The consequences would be the cumulative narrowing of markets, the further growth of high-cost protected industries, the mushrooming of restrictive controls, and the shrinkage of trade into the primitive pattern of bilateral barter." Stated positively, only by. integration could Europe get a home market big enough to support efficient mass production...
...beyond Suzanne's horizon, in Canada, The Bronx, West Virginia and Montmartre, bustling, hopeful, confident people were ordering their lives and dreams to fit the big plane's movements. In The Bronx, motherly Mrs. Raoul Silbernagel was busily planning a welcome-home party for her husband, who had been in Europe for three weeks on business. Cesia Lowenstein had only just returned to her Manhattan apartment after divorcing her husband, Ernest, in Reno, but she too was preparing a welcome. "Ernest was always away on business," she explained. "I couldn't follow him abroad because I wanted...
Little (pop. 900) Medina, N. Dak., which pronounces the name to rhyme with "refiner," got ready to vote on a proposal to change its pronunciation to rhyme with "arena," as a tribute to Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, who presided over the recent trial of eleven U.S. Communist big shots...