Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laconic, genial gentleman who has no idea how he got to be 100 years old. Nor does he attribute his longevity to anything whatsoever. "If you stay well, you don't make any count of the years," he said. "I don't feel any different than I ever did, although I'm not so strong...
Harry Truman, jaunty as ever, took it all in stride. He met with congressional leaders, held his regular weekly Cabinet meeting, by the end of each day had signed his initials or name up to 600 times-on everything from staff memos and postmasters' appointments to a proclamation announcing Freedom...
...hung on to his job. Afterwards, the men who had denounced him, and whom he had denounced as "a clique of scheming men," decided to make his re-election unanimous, as a vote of "confidence." But the whole performance left the G.O.P. no nearer to the comeback trail than ever. The committeemen had demonstrated some of the things wrong with the party; not one of them seemed to have any real idea how to set it to rights...
...Ever since Power got to Italy last summer to play the leading part in 20th Century-Fox's Prince of Foxes, his appearance in Rome's fashionable, tree-lined Via Veneto had drawn swarms of gasping, pop-eyed Roman girls. His presence also drew some of the Roman aristocracy, anxious to get what it could from free-spending 20th Century-Fox. Before he knew it, handsome Tyrone found himself living in a house turned over to him by gregarious Countess Dorothy di Frasso, née Dorothy Taylor, of Manhattan, Hollywood and Mexico. Reported rental...
...told that the porter and the butler had been wounded." On the American occupation of Rome, the Duchess wrote: "I must pay tribute to the tact and courtesy of all Allied officers I met, from those of the highest rank down to the humblest lieutenants . . . not one of them ever made me wince...