Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plenty of time to put together a lifelike picture of Eleanor Roosevelt. Some of the pieces were missing-part of the time Mrs. Roosevelt herself was missing-but the outlines were clear: an incredibly busy, indefatigable housekeeper who was forever scrubbing out dark corners of her domain, worrying over the welfare of the poor people across the tracks, clucking disapproval of dust in Oklahoma and mud tracked into the living room by soil erosion. Some citizens were annoyed, some were puzzled...
...asked under its proposed new contract-ASCAP-ers would receive about half of the $4,500,000 they got from radio in 1939. Stephen Foster's Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair has been a stand-by of the networks in fighting ASCAP with songs in the public domain. Lovers of American music recalled that this number had been written 87 years ago by a composer who was not only free to bargain with publishers and players of his music, but died without the price of a meal in his pocket...
...centre stood the little podium, weedy with microphones. Close at hand stood the President's mother in a black hat, a black coat with silver-fox collar, and his wife, in a black broadtail coat and black hat with a feather. On the other side, reflectively surveying his domain, stood pink-cheeked Boss Ed Flynn. Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in gleaming top hat and Chesterfield coat, thoughtfully chewing...
...general reaction of most people to the "public domain" tunes is just bewilderment. That's not what we want to hear--and if we don't get what we want in a terrific hurry, the songpluggers and radio men will find themselves dictated to from Washington, where for quite some time now rumor has it that things are run in the interests of the people and definitely not in the interests of a few of the boys from Lindy...
...problem before us, as I am given to see things, involves more than 'aid to Britain' or even war in support of British policy in Europe. It is, at bottom, whether we are to build and defend a civilization on our continental domain or are to resume, in effect our former status as a dominion in the British Empire and rely upon British policy and arms for our very existence. In any case, the future will be difficult for us, as, indeed, the past has been, but trying to police the world would certainly be more perplexing and dangerous than...