Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a diplomat once asked Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin what his foreign policy really was, Bevin replied: "To go down to Victoria Station, get a railway ticket and go where the hell I like without a passport or anything else...
...Ernest Hemingway was having the time of his life. Just arrived in Manhattan from Idaho, where he had been shooting duck, he skipped off to Gardiner's Island, N.Y. as the guest of Poloist Winston Guest, to shoot duck...
...First time was in 1914, for playing polo on a bike in the street. † Also Gartered: Viscounts Cranborne and Addison, wartime and current leaders of the House of Lords. ** Five-star warriors "relieved" so far: General George C. Marshall, General Henry H. Arnold, Admiral Ernest J. King...
...just finished a term as an Alaskan federal judge, and was cleaning out his chambers, when somebody came along with a consolation prize. How would he like to start a college in Alaska and become its president? Pennsylvania-born, Bucknell-educated Charles Ernest Bunnell thought he might, on one condition: whenever he decided that the college could get along without him, he would quit and return...
More Industry Than Skill. In the rich field of literary biography, Americans had a thin year. In Leo Tolstoy, Columbia Professor Ernest J. Simmons made use of much new material, and his book seemed likely to become a standard text. Matthew Josephson's Stendhal was the most thorough work in English on the French novelist, but its qualities arose more out of industriousness than skill...