Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient. Once during U.N.'s London meeting, Bevin and Vishinsky were discussing Greece in card-table metaphors. Said Vishinsky: "No etot tuz ne nasto yashchi." The patient interpreter's first try: "But this ace is a funny one." Vishinsky did not like it. The interpreter tried again: "This ace is not a genuine one." But Vishinsky was not satisfied until the sentence swelled to: "The ace which Mr. Bevin pulls out of the deck of cards is not an absolutely normal...
Such a change, if accepted, would be the first enacted since June of 1941 when the present "Oxford card system" was introduced in the Houses. This system provided that each member of the House be permitted to sign his own guests in and out although the hour of departure remained 7 o'clock as previously. It was no longer necessary to have the presence of a third person, but as at present the system affected only those living in the Houses...
Humphed Miss Riblet, unimpressed: "Never in 30 years did he send me a Christmas card...
Later Moore moved west, with his membership card, his lapel pin and the White House photo, protected by a cellophane case. Until last week he went over big wherever he went. Then Lion Moore passed a worthless check on a brother member in Salt Lake City, and the police, digging into the past, dug up a story. Items...
...picked carefully among his offers : he turned down the Yankees because the competition would be too stiff and he might wind up on the farm team in Newark; he rejected the Dodgers (who offered the most money) because he didn't think he'd like Brooklyn; a Card scout wrote him a nine-page letter, but he thought the Cardinals were too penny-pinching. Finally he took a $27,500 bonus for joining the Reds. If Hoss doesn't play third base this year, General Manager Warren Giles says he will have to fire five scouts...