Word: crush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work with people." Enough people with something to do or say about the Village shoot in and out of his office in the administration building (which still looks exactly like an Army administration building) every day to make happy the most gregarious person this side of a subway crush. To Mr. Taft belong all the problems of the Village. He is, if not the mayor, most certainly the town father...
...picking their sponsors, Government contractors had a crush on the wives of Washington bigwigs. Mrs. James F. Byrnes broke two bottles and received a $349.90 gold brooch and a $1,820.12 tray. Mrs. Claude Pepper's record of six christenings was second only to the eight splashed up by California's first lady, Mrs. Earl Warren. Mrs. Henry Wallace, Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg and the wife of economy-minded Comptroller General Lindsay Warren all took remunerative whacks. A $1,000 watch was presented to Mrs. Brehon B. Somervell, wife of the wartime Chief of the Army Service Forces...
...lavish Technicolor showcase for the considerable singing talents of a freshfaced young actress named Jane Powell. Jane plays the adolescent daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Mexico (Walter Pidgeon). The plot relentlessly examines her kittenish romance with the British ambassador's young son (Roddy McDowall) and her schoolgirl crush on celebrated Pianist Jose Iturbi ( played by Jose Iturbi). Between times there are songs by Jane, songs by Ilona Massey (father Pidgeon's romantic interest), piano selections by Iturbi and rumbas led by Xavier Cugat (played by Xavier Cugat...
...Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, who hit the front pages in the '30s by marrying Heiress Barbara Button, rose from his latter-day obscurity to crush a canard. It was getting around that ex-Wife Barbara had offered him $1 million to give up his part-time custody of their ten-year-old son, Lance. Gritted father: "I would rather lose my right leg. . . ." Then he subsided again into Newport with Wife No. 2, the former Margaret Drayton, granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor...
...whose "new and important task" was to shield the Soviet people against threatening fascist crusades. Historian Eugene Tarle, who jumps higher for his fish than any other Soviet-trained seal, declared in Red Star that such crusades were even now being plotted by U.S. reactionaries who were trying to crush the U.S. working class as a preliminary to the imposition of a "Pax Americana" on the world...