Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Somerset Maugham, visiting friends in San Francisco to celebrate his 75th birthday, had something pleasant to remember. "The nicest compliment ever paid me," he announced, "was a letter from a G.I. in the Pacific during the war, who wrote me that he had read an entire story of mine without having to look up a single word in the dictionary...
Veteran Adman Bruce Barton had figured out a sure-shot means of cracking the Iron Curtain: bombard Russia with Sears Roebuck catalogues. "If that day ever comes," he told a San Francisco salesmen's convention, "we will not need any longer to fear Communism. No ordinary Russian ever suspected such a wealth of wonderful and desirable objects exists anywhere in the world as the Sears catalogue presents...
...Pretty Good About This." Last week, Cissy Schultz was having the time of her life. The old-guard Seattle Symphony Orchestra board had finally agreed to sponsor the orchestra for the rest of the season and happily ever after. Among their concessions: two musicians (for the rest of this season at least, a clarinet and a French horn) could sit on the board...
Trouble had been brewing for the past six months-ever since Aubrey L. Ashby (class of '08) had taken over as president. Brush-mustached, cigar-puffing Aubrey Ashby, 62, onetime vice president of the National Broadcasting Co., didn't like anything that had been happening under his last two predecessors. Olivet (enrollment: 287) had earned quite a reputation as a progressive college with a highly literary flavor and a strong political bent. As far as Ashby was concerned, the place was a hotbed of socialists, pacifists, and foggy-minded liberals...