Word: day
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bible knowledge, had a little confession to make. Reaching into his memory for a quotation from Daniel last week, he had come out with: "The laws of the Medes and Persians, they are not altered." What he should have said, he explained apologetically at his press conference next day, was "which altereth not." But however his memory had served him, no one could mistake the meaning of the President's welcoming toast to his guest, the Shahinshah of Iran, first Oriental monarch to make a state visit to the U.S. since...
...settled down to routine. A little fat from his long desk-bound summer, he had been roped into a reducing contest with Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, and his portly military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. The President still had three pounds to lose by Thanksgiving Day (to 175). Then, after accounts were settled (at $10 for every overweight pound), he would head for three weeks at Key West and his first real vacation since last March...
...Army General Staff," which he said was "a small, powerful military group" using "the Prussian method" of hoodwinking their superiors, Congress and the people. Since under regulations no officer has a right to demand such a court-martial, Captain Crommelin's statement got no further than one day's headlines. "The case is closed," said Admiral Sherman, and that was that...
...only boy from a slum who got rich in the rackets: in his day the U.S. had become as much a land of opportunity for the graduate of Dannemora as for the graduate of Dartmouth. But Frank Costello had the brains, luck and jungle caution to stay rich-rich, alive and free as air-while Al Capone went raving to his grave, while bullets cut down Dutch Schultz and Dion O'Banion, while Lepke Buchalter burned in the electric chair, while Lucky Luciano went off to exile and a hundred minor hoodlums rotted in prison...
...weeks go by, Helen drops her unsavory friends under the influence of her unadmitted love for the musician. Then, just as his big chance comes, his instruments are stolen. Will Helen save the day? How will she get money fro new instruments? Will the young man realize her Sacrifice and forgive her thus compromising his Minneapolis mores...