Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bank great. Prim and methodical in his daily life, he worked continuously in a small parlor full of old-fashioned furniture and knickknacks, wore white cloth gloves while working, took an occasional evening off to drink tea with a small circle of intimate friends: the poet Mallarme, the composer Ernest Chausson, the decadent novelist Joris Karl Huysmans...
Both men disappeared. The President went off on his yacht Potomac with Commander of the Atlantic Fleet Admiral Ernest King. The Potomac promptly began sending out meaningless, innocent, provocative communiques. The Prime Minister simply vanished. From London also vanished Franklin Roosevelt's Man Friday, Harry Hopkins. No longer in Washington, or anywhere anybody could find them, were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of The Air Forces' Major General Henry H. Arnold, Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson. No longer...
...first half of her two weeks' stay she 1) addressed the nation over BBC; 2) spoke in the House of Commons in person; 3) ate meals with Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Ernest Bevin, Harry Hopkins, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Brendan Bracken (new Minister of Information), several other members of the British Cabinet; 4) shook hands with some 1,200 leading Britons at a reception in her honor at the Savoy; 5) went to the movies with Anthony Eden* 6) interviewed a score of notables, from Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes to Zionist Chaim Weizmann; 7) spoke at a fireman's dance...
Brigadier General Ernest Petit, Chief of the Free French General Staff, was kept in Paraguay during France's part...
...week to be on the tips of a few tongues, although the most encyclopedic U.S. collectors-Alan Lomax of the U.S. Library of Congress, Chicago's Poet Carl Sandburg, Boston University Professor Horace Reynolds, Radio Singers Frank Luther and Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, Mary Wheeler of Paducah, Ky., Ernest C. Krohn of St. Louis, Author Carl Carmer, "Daddy of the Blues" W. C. Handy-did not know it. Apparently it was never published. But Cincinnati rivermen remembered Hot Shot, so did Captain D. T. Wright of the Waterways Journal in St. Louis. Two Memphis experts-Joe Curtis and Charles...