Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Publisher Greenspun, who faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine, seemed delighted by the indictment. He ran his January column all over again, charged that the indictment was "just another attempt to muzzle a newspaper which has been critical of McCarthy . . . McCarthy chose a column that was written facetiously ... to pressure the Postmaster General. Why didn't McCarthy make an issue of some of the serious, documented columns I have written about...
Avoiding the Flesh pots. The question of which church to serve posed no problem. His lawyer father was a casual Episcopalian,- his mother a devout Presbyterian. Pit unhesitatingly chose the Presbyterian for his ministry. "I wasn't keen about the liturgical emphasis in the Episcopal Church," he says. "I also thought it contained more charming nominal Christians than any other. I missed its lack of moral drive. My religious motivation is primarily moral, and always will be. I didn't have to read Reinhold Niebuhr to know about original sin. The forces of evil are always gaining ground...
...solemn conclave at a cocktail party in Manhattan last week, eleven of the nation's top milliners met to announce their choices of the best-hatted women in the U.S. Each chose the one woman among his customers who "best qualifies as the perfect showcase for his hats." Under the terms of the contest, it was not surprising to find some familiar names among the winners. The top eleven and their milliners: Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower (Sally Victor), Mrs. Lauritz Melchior (John Frederics), Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (Mr. John), Contralto Claramae Turner (Robert Dudley), Soprano Mary Bothwell (Rose Saphire...
...Ministry of Information or the Board of Education, a wartime backwater. True to family tradition, Butler was deeply interested in education. But, though Hitler was then racing for Moscow, Butler also foresaw that the education job would give him a major hand in shaping Tory postwar policy. He chose education...
...illustrate the problem, the museum relaxed its standing rule against exhibiting anything of bad design, chose for its horrible example a picture of a street corner at 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue, near its own building. On or beneath one overburdened lamppost are six different signs (see cut) telling twelve different messages in ten letter styles and 21 sizes. Aside from the fact that this jumble is artistically jarring, the museum notes also that it all takes too long to read: a minimum of almost a minute...