Word: compartmentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull carefully hung up his grey tropical worsteds, drooped his black shoes outside the door of Compartment D, eased his lanky bones into bed. Stay-ups among his staff of 25 and the 14 accompanying newsmen clustered about the club-car radio, listening to...
He has one priceless attribute: a knack of locking up his and the world's worries in some secret mental compartment, and then enjoying himself to the top of his bent. This quality of survival, of physical toughness, of champagne ebullience, is one key to the big man. Another...
Said Newsman Philip: "At least let me die with my boots on." While he struggled with his boots, stalling for time, gendarmes arrived and put him under arrest. Through lines of indignant peasants, spitting insults at "the Boche assassin," the gendarmes marched him to the police station. There his credentials...
One day last week in London Webb Miller lunched with Fellow Veteran Raymond Daniell of the New York Times, covered Parliament's acrid session on Chamberlain's failure in Norway, told his office he was leaving for his country home at Cobham. In an inky blackout, Miller'...
...December four of these U. S. missionaries-Jay Holmes Smith of Lucknow, Paul K. Keene of Mussoorie, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Templin of Muttra-sent a manifesto to the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow. Wrote they: "During the earlier phases of the missionary movement, it was natural to think compartmentally, religion in one compartment, science in another, politics in a third. Sir John Bowring, as a devout churchman, could write the familiar hymn, 'In the Cross of Christ I glory,' and, as the representative of empire, sign, perhaps with the same pen, the treaties forcing the nefarious opium...