Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barkley showed that the White House itself was squirming to get off the hook. He offered amendments that filed down the bill's sharp teeth in almost every section. He fought hard against others that would have put some teeth back in. The Senate scrambled Party lines, produced curious alliances and strange turnabouts. At one point Alben Barkley remarked: "To see the Senator from Florida [Pepper] coming to the rescue of the American businessman and the Senator from Colorado [conservative Republican Eugene Donald Millikin] coming to the rescue of the American workingman is something wonderful to behold...
Outside the office of Secretary of State Byrnes, curious reporters made another try. Whimsically, Inverchapel explained that until he had presented his credentials to the President he was only "a ghost, an astral body." The solid ghost, with a red face and a big nose, then evaporated in the general direction of the solid and stately British Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue...
...biggest shake-up will come in Lever's radio advertising. Long a leading purveyor of that curious phenomenon of U.S. culture, the soap opera, the company is going to cut down. Luckman has nothing against soap opera as such. Says he: "You can't reach a mass market with a symphony orchestra." But he thinks that radio talent has become too high-priced for Lever's advertising dollar...
...Murphy hasn't budged from Boston. He simply waits for teams to come to town to play the Boston Braves and the Red Sox; the visitors are usually curious enough to go out to his place to hear his story. His main talking points: 1) a minimum wage of $7,500 a year, which sounds good to lesser lights who seldom finish up a season with enough carfare to get home; 2) 50% of the sale price to go to a player when he is sold to another club. Not until his union is good & strong does Murphy intend...
Middleton's aggressiveness will be a change from Atkinson's urbane inquisitiveness. Colleagues are curious to see whether Middleton will check his shoulder chip at the Russian frontier. Says National Correspondent James ("Scotty") Reston, himself a Times topnotcher: "Moscow will be good for his temper. It will teach him patience or kill...