Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deals." Sixteen floors up in the Rose Room, some 400 photographers, radiomen, television men and newsmen assembled for the Dewey press conference. Dewey walked in-a small, compact, aggressive man. For the space of five solid minutes, while photographers shot him, radiomen adjusted microphones, moviemen flapped their arms around his head in signals, he held his mouth in a radiant, frozen smile. "How do you feel, Governor Dewey?" In an emphatic baritone, pausing after each word, he said: "I feel swell...
...flavor -a homy mixture of galluses, shirtsleeves, palmetto fans, odd hats and lax faces. Most televiewers lost the thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto Rican delegate; a wide-eyed little boy in the gallery...
Coffee House Compact. The New York Exchange was built on speculation; in early days it often seemed jerrybuilt. Wall Street (socalled because of the log wall that peg-legged Peter Stuyvesant had built) was a natural site for trading: near the docks at its foot, there had long been a slave market. There, in 1790, when the first U.S. Congress voted "public stock" to redeem the Continental scrip which had financed the Revolution, a lively trade in the U.S. "stock" sprang...
...much as this one. An anthology of the best writing of the 42 Nobel Prizewinners*-from 1901 through 1947- should theoretically be a cross section of the 20th Century's best world literature. But the fact is, these masterpieces of the recent past, placed together in one compact volume, seem extremely uneven. This book contains such material as Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin's Gentleman from San Francisco...
Though Bowdoin's endowment has risen from $2,000,000 to $9,000,000 since Casey took office, he has never even considered marble halls. He prefers to keep Bowdoin to its traditions-compact and personal, with a faculty of first-rate teachers rather than scholars...