Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curley had met Roosevelt at a luncheon at the home of Colonel Edward M. House ("the president-maker") in Magnolia, Mass. After the luncheon, when the group faced the press, Curley told the newsmen point-blank that it was going to nominate Roosevelt for President, But, so strong was Massachusetts feeling for Smith, that Curley was not even elected to the delegation to the convention. Instead, he went to Chicago alone and there executed one of the shrewdest tricks in recent political history. He approached the delegation from Puerto Rico, talked them into giving him their standard...
...blood drive got under way yesterday afternoon as flyers were slipped under every door in the University. The leaflets, appealing on the basis of the emergency situation, are also a signup blank for those interested. The Blood Drive Committee has placed deposit boxes for the blanks in every University dining ball. Actual donations will take place at PBH November...
Nothing for the eager ones this morning. Nine o'clock is blank. Ten o'clock is more promising. Hudnut's Humanities 114, architecture and city design from Thebes to Modern Boston, meets in Hunt Large Room. Pleasant and interesting course with slides. LeCorbeiller and Nat. Sci. 1 convene at Byerly Hall, Radcliffe. Excellent lectures feature brilliant explanations. Demos is delightful in Phil, 1a, though the course is no snap (Emerson...
...touched off by his flat refusal to tell whether or not his father-in-law had attended the party's 1945 national convention. It was the climax of eight days of hairsplitting evasion during which Winter's memory wavered, as his fancy suited, from a complete blank to total recall...
...Dawn of Disillusion. Modeling is concentrated in a few crowded Manhattan blocks between Fifth and Third Avenues, brightened by the parade of breathless, breath-taking young women dressed at fashion's extreme, hatboxes* in their hands, their feet fleet and flat-heeled, their pancaked faces as blank as a baby's conscience. There are about 1,000 professional photographic models active in New York (including 25 men, 25 children and several dogs...