Word: elder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, after much pondering and consultation in his office (see cut), five weeks ago submitted a report to Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes on the much muddled problem of U.S. manpower. Czar Jimmy hugged the report to his well-tailored weskit, declined to reveal its contents. Last week, chivied by suspicious Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Czar Jimmy reluctantly released the report. The reason for his reluctance became plain. Though many of the details had leaked out, the sharp, critical tone had not come through...
...Stock Catalogs, and Pratt and Whitney engine spares . . . out of the chaos of birthday parties at ten o'clock, baseball games at three, telephone calls in the alcove with wet wash slapping one in the face, lusty singing through the streets of Cambridge to the continued amazement of the elder citizenry, not to speak of grubby, small boys who want to know if we are WACS . . . out of the pleasant overtones of cigarettes over coffee after dinner, gala evenings in town with the inevitable mad rush to beat the 7.45 bell back to Briggs, the frantic borrowing, lending, and devouring...
...socialite wife, constantly complains that he never tells her anything (she usually fails to see the point of what he does tell her). He dallies for a few months in the Hollywood home of an actress, an old friend, and learns that he cannot write a play. His elder son, Jim, quits Harvard to join the army and marry a girl Madge does not approve. But on these bare bones Marquand has molded the flesh of Jeffrey Wilson's memories, turns them into vivid, detailed, often moving episodic stories. So skilfully does Marquand recapture the mood of middle-class...
...year, with 100,000 fewer men, the U.S. has acquired 100,000 more spinsters. In 1910, men outnumbered women by 2,800,000. Soon - some time this year - women will be in the majority, regardless of war casualties. The U.S. will then be classed by census experts as an "elder" nation (in a "youthful" nation, men predominate...
...Manhattan on business, lean, red-mustached Liverpool shipowner Major Leonard Cripps, taller, elder brother of tall Sir Stafford Cripps, waved away midsummer heat with his handkerchief, waved away his brother's socialistic notions as well. Of his brother, Social Security Planner Beveridge and their "sentimental" followers, the Major remarked: "In the country of mad hatters, I mean Britain, they're destroying civilization by giving away all this blasted money...