Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tolstoy had no business to be born in Europe. He should have been an Indian sage, and then his exit to meditate in the wilderness would have ... troubled nobody...
...fanfare of Senator Beveridge (Almighty God had "marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world"). She finds equally quixotic the present-day Filipino hope for coexistent 1) independence, 2) protection by the Asiatic Fleet, 3) free trade with the U. S., 4) exit from the international scene. For President Manuel Quezon-a sort of hothouse hybrid between Jimmy Walker and Huey Long-she has little respect. And toward American colonists she is passionately irreverent. "They build for themselves a barricaded American life wherever they are. They insulate themselves as thoroughly as possible against...
...fifty more square feet in which a traffic light would settle the problem of cars. Surrounding gas and water mains prevent the re-location of the entrance, but the present little-used stairways could be easily converted and enlarged. The one by Lehman Hall would be the regular exit, and the entrance would be through the other by Hayes-Bickford. Accompanying this revolution the busses would all be diverted to Eliot Square adjacent to the El repair yards. Here on the remaining piece of city-owned property the new transfer station is set-up. Harvard Square is at last emancipated...
Indirectly, Valedictorian Martin confessed that the job of Stock Exchange president was hopeless and thankless. Nobody knew whom the president was supposed to represent or what he was supposed to do. But fate had provided Bill Martin with a face-saving exit. Disinclined to plead exemption on the ground that his job is of civil importance, he is prepared to be drafted as soon as his number comes up (probably in May). Wall Street's Boy Wonder of 1938 is 1941's most willing draftee...
...even Lombardo's exit was spoiled. Three days after his speech, President Avila Camacho put in a surprise appearance at the convention, neatly stole the show. Marching down the aisle to the blare of a truck-drivers' band, he mounted the platform, embraced his townsman Lombardo, then turned and lectured...