Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Refreshing Change. In London, Gil Winant was a striking contrast to his predecessor, that ruddy salesman, Joe Kennedy. He gangled; his hair straggled down in a black shock over a craggy face in which only the eyes crackled; he vibrated with a strange intensity. Once, shortly after his arrival in 1941, a luncheon crowd demanded a speech. Winant rose with a glazed look, and for four straight minutes of silent agony, stood shifting from one leg to the other. Then he whispered: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in the first place...
...world, and as an Attila or Genghis Khan destined to destroy it. Yet in his private life he always remained a drab petty bourgeois, who chose drab Eva Braun for his mistress, and somewhat embarrassedly concealed the fact for 15 years. Wrote Roper: "There is a somewhat macabre contrast between the revolutionary nihil ism of his doctrines . . . and the back ground of coziness and triviality from which they proceeded: teacups and cream buns, cuckoo clocks and Bavarian bric-a-brac...
Politics of Relief. This week, the men whose job it is to feed the world's hungry millions gather in the fourth Council of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration at Atlantic City's lush Traymore Hotel. To soften the contrast between the locale and the subject of their discussions, UNRRA officials announced that the delegates would have to double up in $16.50-a-day rooms, would be served "austerity" meals. Two crucial issues would come up at the meeting...
Bolger, to be sure, is a pretty great fellow, and seems an even greater one by contrast-fair as a star when only one is shining in a show. He repeats his floppy Wizard of Oz scarecrow dance; he wickedly burlesques ballroom dancers; and in the show's and the season's most fetching solo act, he does a perfect soft-shoe routine while poking delightful...
Nevertheless, in marked contrast to his truculence towards businessmen only a few days before, Bowles showed a sweetly reasonable air. Then, he had stood up before the National Farmers Union in Topeka, Kans. and tonguelashed the "irresponsible, reckless, greedy organizations [who opposed price control] . . . the National Association of Manufacturers . . . the heads of the National Retail Dry Goods Association with all the phony propaganda . . . the real estate lobbies . . . the packers' lobby and textile lobby...