Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother - good, but hot-tempered - had thrown a knife at a man, severed his jugular vein, been sentenced to 20 years in prison.) Oleander ordered Lily around, kept house for her, encouraged her love affairs, helped her marry, scandalized the neighbors, dwarfed her surroundings with her tawdry queenliness -in brief, a "burning pillar of a woman." Grant Sweetland, the ne'er-do-well son of a rich St. Louis family, a drunkard who in his childhood had tortured small ani mals, was "loosely groomed, indifferently tailored," with "a soft, rather overheated look ... a cowlick which dipped damp-looking across...
...Louis, Mo. (pop. 816,000) that she describes, the commonplaces of existence - setting the table, visiting the neighbors, coming home from work - and the furniture of the rooms, the clothes of the women, petting the dog, playing the piano, take on a sultry, Sunday-supplement sexual significance. Her brief, artificial scenes are of sudden quarrels, abrupt endearments, pell-mell melodrama. But her emotional thunderstorms never clear the air after her emotional dog days...
...title of Pravda's prominently displayed blast. It accused "Mr. Willkie, as an obedient speaking-trumpet," of "reproducing the suspicious cries of the reactionary groups [in the U.S.] which are afraid of a victorious movement forward of the Red Army and the Allied Armies." In Willkie's brief for wholehearted cooperation with Russia, based on "simple American common sense," Pravda discovered "a rotten smell of familiar anti-Soviet slanders designed to cause mistrust toward the Soviet Union...
Died. Frederick Hill Wood, 66, Manhattan corporation lawyer (Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1935 the Supreme Court agreed with his brief on the Schechter test case, declared the National Recovery Administration unconstitutional for trying to set wages and hours in the intrastate poultry trade. He was United China Relief's board chairman...
...this industrial machine gave the world a brief vision of the abundance that modern technological organization holds in store. In 1943 the machine, many times more powerful, gave the world an exciting-but frightening-vision of the possibilities in the postwar peace. The achievement which Stalin saluted at Teheran was all the more impressive, Americans realized uneasily, because it seemed unheroic in almost everything except its scale...