Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to save his line, decided to abdicate in favor of Umberto. Wearily, he penned his abdication, got the date wrong, corrected it, and paid a notary a 129-lire (15?) fee to register the document. Queen Elena cried. By this time, Italy's politicians professed not to care what he was doing or what his plans were; informed of the impending abdication, Premier Alcide de Gasperi said: "It's not even fourth or fifth on my list of matters of importance...
...Fitzgerald, Anita Loos and E. E. Cummings between the paintings of Matisse, Segonzac, Pascin, Laurencin, and seasoned the whole with Covarrubias caricatures and Steichen photographs. At 71, after observing that "it would make a frightful mess if I died and left all this stuff for other people to take care of," Connoisseur Crowninshield sold his art collection...
...recruiting standards were exacting: physical fitness, sure loyalty and freedom from potentially embarrassing family obligations. One militia leader explained: "We don't want anyone who has children so small they can't be cared for by nuns and not big enough to take care of themselves. And we don't want anyone whose wife will say at a crucial moment, 'Carino, be very careful...
...horseback, the wild Western ground he was to write about. His journals, in some respects more valuable than his books, disappeared in 1904, barely mined by scholars. Biographer Mason Wade found them in overlooked drawers of Parkman's Boston study in 1940, has edited them with care and prefaced them with candor...
This week, WIND's Fearless Bert Wilson was at the mike as usual when Conzelman's Cardinals stalked the crosstown Chicago Bears in a battle royal at Wrigley Field. And as usual, Wilson had made his partisanship clear: "I don't care who wins, as long as it's the Bears." The temperature was a chilly 35°, but Conzelman's boys were hot. By beating the Bears, they won the National League western division championship, and silenced-at least for the moment-radio's voice of doom. Score: Cardinals 30, Bears...