Word: caution
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen before the story assumed its proper focus. After his five days with Hogan, whom he liked and respected, Smith invited the golfer and his wife to come out to the house the next time they were in New York City. However, he added a note of caution : "You may not want to after you've read the cover story." As of last week, it looked as if the Hogans and the Smiths would be getting together soon...
People were spending their money with more caution; some businessmen were encountering some bumps; some wage groups had been left behind. But in general, he said, the country breathed confidence in the future. Moreover, he said, it breathed a new air of democracy...
...ideas, laws and generalized intentions which Franklin Roosevelt called the New Deal. It was no longer radical-it had been accepted for 16 years. As far as the Democratic Party was concerned it was the new orthodoxy, and Harry Truman, no original thinker but a man tempered with Missouri caution, was orthodox clear through...
Department store executives in the know have issued one caution this Christmas. If possible, don't guess her size. They've found from experience that men who persuade salesgirls to model their purchase "Because she's just your size" are apt to underestimate their lady's weight by a healthy five or ten pounds...
...despite this editorial caution, the new Bartlett is full of inconsistencies and badly lacking in proportion. Some of the major poets and novelists seem to be there merely for the record, their best known lines omitted. It is human enough to give Churchill top rating among the new entries with 9½ columns, and to give quotable Ogden Nash four, but in general | the space allotted to each "name" seems arbitrary, to say the least...