Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delegates to the United Auto Workers' convention listened politely to the paternal, burr-flecked voice. Words were inadequate, said C.I.O. Boss Phil Murray, to express the good will he felt toward that splendid little redhead, Walter Reuther. Over the mike in Atlantic City's cavernous Convention Hall, he purred...
...teachers' turn to be tested. In Denver, the Rocky Mountain News asked about 100 Colorado public elementary and high-school teachers such questions as who killed Lincoln? What was the Monroe Doctrine? The teachers' average grade: 67 (below passing). Some believed that Aaron Burr assassinated Lincoln, that George Washington wrote the Declaration of Independence, and that the Civil War lasted ten years. Toughest question: Who married Pocahontas? Most teachers said John Smith. Correct answer: John Rolfe...
...Inspector Calls (by J. B. Priestley; produced by Courtney Burr & Lessor H. Grosberg) and, finding the smug, well-to-do Birling family all at home, accuses one startled member after another of being partly to blame for a young working girl's suicide. Mr. Birling had once sacked the girl from his factory. On another occasion, Mr. Birling's daughter got her dismissed from a shop. The daughter's fiance had had an affair with the girl; so had Mr. Birling's son, who got her with child; Mrs. Birling had refused her charitable...
...Burr Under His Saddle. When Hollywood called Louis Evans in 1941, he was pastor of the steel-rich, conservative Third Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh. At first, the un-Presbyterian prospect of sports jackets and starlets did not attract him. "I said no at first when their call came," he said. "But later I realized it would be a burr under my saddle and that Hollywood would be one of the finest recruiting grounds in America. Also, I wanted to get my teeth into something...
...were given the heave ho (samples: William "Boss" Tweed, Carrie Nation, Daniel Boone, Pocahontas). Enough also-rans (1½ pages in the D.A.B.) were then added to bring the list to an even thousand. The finalists include 973 men (examples: George and Booker T. Washington, Eugene V. Debs, Aaron Burr, Andrew Carnegie, Brigham Young) and 27 women (Lillian Russell, Emily Dickinson, Mary Baker Eddy). Some of the findings...