Word: corliss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plug hat and frock coat stood towering over President Ulysses S. Grant. The visitor was Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, who had come north on the British liner Hevelius for the U.S.'s centennial exposition. When a technician explained to him that the newly invented Corliss steam engine in Machinery Hall made some 36 revolutions a minute, Dom Pedro cracked: "That is better than our Latin American republics...
...career on the CRIMSON that the famous case of the scrubwomen occurred. I don't recall the details now, but the central issue was that Harvard was paying a certain group of scrubwomen less than the state minimum wage for women workers. A group of alumni, headed by Corliss Lamont if I recall correctly, took the initiative in publicizing the case and raised a fund to make restitution to the women concerned. I had to write an editorial defining the CRIMSON's stand on this gesture of the alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague on both...
They are: "The Peoples of the Soviet Union," by Corliss Lamont: "Where Are WE Heading?" by Sumner Welles; "Soviet Philosophy," by John Somerville; and "These Are the Russians," by Richard E. Lauterbach...
...Romeo and Juliet, an innocent situation is all gummed up by the old folks-the feuding Archers and Pringles. The Archer boy (Scott Elliott), an Air Forces lieutenant, elopes with the Pringle girl (Virginia Welles)-secretly, in deference to the feud. When he ships overseas, his younger sister, Corliss (Shirley Temple), mixes in the intrigue and is spotted sneaking her sister-in-law into the obstetrician's. Shirley quixotically claims the pregnancy for herself and names her moony boyfriend (Jerome Courtland) as the reluctant father. What happens from that point on makes one of the year's fastest...
Said the New York Times: "Mr. White fires no guns for fascism, but he rolls ammunition for it." Said Manhattan's excitable PM: "Pernicious and irresponsible ... it might have been calculated to do the greatest amount of damage to the emerging comity of nations." Corliss Lament's top-heavily titled National Council of American-Soviet Friendship unrolled a 20-page dossier, quoting in parallel columns White and those who apparently disagreed with him. These included Churchill, Eisenhower, Roosevelt and Willkie, some of them obviously caught in mid-paragraph while making politic remarks about an ally. Sometimes N.C.A...