Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tentative plans for a direct-line broadcast of the Harvard-Dartmouth grid classic to Crimson Stay-at-homers were announced by the Crimson Network yesterday...
Emir Mohamed Al-Raschid II, Detroit-born, self-styled heir to the Turkish throne and direct descendant of the Prophet, took a right royal beating in a Hollywood divorce court. His commoner wife, a onetime Iowa telephone operator (Marcella Whiting), now the Princess Pareshah, won both her divorce, ("He never earned a cent . . . made me serve him breakfast in bed") and the right to raise their 17-month-old daughter as a Methodist. Mohamed II was horrified, claimed that some 200,000,000 Moslems would be, too. "The Princess," he declared, "belongs to all Islam." His wife's attorneys...
Finally, Allen suggested a "world symphony" to sell his soap ("We'll have 300 violins piped in from California . . . trombones from Texas . . . 90 French horns direct from Marseilles"). But it would not do, said Allen. To the tune of Tit-Willow, he explained...
...Isenstadt will continue to sell any book published," stated Mr. I, inserting his right hand within his coat-front, "as long as it cannot be proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, to be pornographic. When a bookseller bucks Boston, he has to undergo a lot of direct and indirect persecution. Mr. Isenstadt has been undergoing this persecution but will continue to defend his constitutional right to sell books and the right of any individual to buy them." There followed a low murmur of applause from the first term law students jamming the aisle of the store...
...Russia has been the mutual distrust between our two nations. For Russia, this suspicion goes back to memories of an American expeditionary force in Vladivostok and years of non-recognition by this country. And, in the United States, distrust of the Comintern has flared up with new intensity in direct ratio to every instance of Russian obstructionism of Slavic temperamentalism in the United Nations. The principal problem of the Paris peacemakers has been to allay the fear and distrust between nations that is the legacy of World Wars...