Word: elling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commons, one of his colleagues on the Government bench dryly remarked: "He's picked up all of Eden's principles and dropped nothing but his aspirates." (Commoner Bevin still occasionally drops his aitches; during the war he whipped on his workers with "Give 'itler 'ell!") Different as Ernie Bevin is in manner and method from urbane Anthony Eden, and from all the kid-glove and silk-hat diplomats before him, he has not veered from Eden's course. He growled to a friend not long ago: "Everyone is expecting me to change our foreign policy...
Thus at a time when management seemed determined to yield mighty few inches in any industry, Amalgamated had got its usual ell. For his 150,000 overcoat and suitmen, President Hillman reported a 20% to 31% pay raise amounting to $60 million (with no hike in clothing prices); and including six paid holidays and continuation of insurance benefits at the employer's expense. For his 45,000 shirtmakers, he announced a 20% raise with like trimmings...
...monument to graft and bad taste. But underneath the smugness of Philadelphia life is a quality of repose" that Struthers Burt spends most of his 396 pages trying to define. Much of this feeling comes from the old Philadelphia houses, three stories in front, with a two-story ell leading back to the alley, spacious, light and comfortable dwellings whose warm rooms were made for good dinners and good conversation...
...Ell quintet will oppose a Harvard team on the basketball courts this season, it was announced by the Yale Atheistic Association over the weekend. This is the first formal meeting in a major college sport between the two traditional rivals this year...
...girls of the turn of the century. Given by Manhattan's Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, the show featured the work of the most blandishing portrayers of women in recent history: the late John Singer Sargent and his less famous French friend, the late Paul Helleu (pronounced Ell-uh). Both had undoubtedly, as the catalogue stated, felt the sorcery of young girls and of the ladies in whom the fascination of youth had been replaced by the art of studied sophistication. Both had been surrounded by wows and had made them look even more wowing than they were...