Word: drawer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...auto industry, just completing the second biggest year in its history, last week faced the fact that next year would be one of its toughest. In Washington, OPM officials and 56 top-drawer auto executives met behind closed doors for an overdue session of plain talk about the wartime role of the nation's greatest peacetime industry. Upshot: not many automobiles will be made in Detroit next year, but a lot more munitions. Bill Knudsen promised to triple the industry's present defense contracts...
...Joseph Rosier climbed into his car, said good-by to Fairmont, West Va., where he had lived for 44 of his 71 years, and drove to Washington. There, behind a walnut desk, he gingerly sat himself down, pulled up his black pants and plunked his feet on a drawer. For the next two years he was to be addressed as "Senator...
...Glancy, an ex-Du Pont Republican with patriotic urge to lick his terrific job, has an act for people who ask: "How are we doing?" In the top right-hand drawer of his desk is a tight roll of paper six inches wide. To explain this gadget he huddles with visitors and unrolls the end of the paper. There are the years and opposite them black bars representing the money that Army Ordnance has had to spend. The black bars through the '20's and '30's are about as long as a finger nail...
After the fire was over and the crowd had dispersed, a committee composed of a proctor and two Yard cops investigated and deduced that it had started in a drawer of a desk at about 8:30 o'clock and had not been noticed when the building was closed up at 10 o'clock...
...revision of The School for Scandal. As a lecturer he earned $500 a week for discreet blends of laughter and sentiment on such subjects as Salubrities (nice celebrities) I Have Met. As an editor he diapered the old Life's first years, brightened up "The Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded him out. He set a whole generation's style of tame, facile humor, in which the cheerful shades of the great pseudophilosophized and gagged politely (sample: Wellington pulls a campstool from under Napoleon...