Word: drawer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the President, leaning back in his baggy tweeds, agreed to disclose his private pre-election guess on the division of electoral votes. He searched in a drawer for an envelope he had sealed before election day. He looked up, laughing-perhaps it would be necessary to search everyone in the room. Finally, paper in hand, he guessed that he had been a little too conservative. He had given himself 335 votes, Governor Dewey 196. (Final vote: 432 to 99.) The short conference ended with another roar of laughter after the Baltimore Sun's Paul Ward threw a quick...
Laura (20th Century-Fox), thanks to some slick direction by Otto Preminger and a cast out of the top drawer, is a highly polished and debonair whodunit with only one inelegant smudge on its gleaming surface. In swank settings that cry for a pinch of poison or at least a dainty derringer, the victim is obliged for purposes of plot to have her pretty face blown off by a double-barreled shotgun fired at close range...
...Junker but a schoolteacher's son, Erwin Rommel fought with distinction in World War I, emerged into the chaos of postwar Germany a well decorated captain. Lost, he found Hitler. He became the ranting Führer's bodyguard, military adviser and top-drawer hooligan. When Hitler rang up the curtain on World War II Erwin Rommel was a colonel, commanded an 55 division that fought in the battle of Poland's Vistula bend. By the time France was invaded, Rommel was a major general; he led the 7th Armored Division in the breakthrough at Maubeuge...
Drew Pearson, who has long hobnobbed with top-drawer Washington society, was unceremoniously dropped from the just-issued 1945 edition of the swank Washington Social List. The explanation: sharp-sniping, chitchatting Columnist Pearson "gets into too many controversies and has trodden on too many toes...
...comfortable, book-lined Washington office, with fireplace, Berge works quietly, with few press conferences. Like Arnold, he is a pipe-puffer; he keeps twelve pipes cooling in his desk drawer. In the next year, he expects to hack at cartels with another batch of indictments...