Word: expressman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harry Truman stepped off the Presidential Special in Independence, Mo. an expressman called: "Hello, you old goat." Replied the President of the U.S.: "You're a long-eared rabbit." Strangers might have been shocked at the exchange. But Harry Truman and the expressman were merely greeting each other as old political opponents of the Pendergast-Shannon ("Goats" v. "Rabbits")* Democratic rivalry in Kansas City...
...Saturday, Nubbins' father had worked in the kitchen, hanging ornaments on the fir branch and answering the side door every time the postman, the delivery boy or the expressman knocked. His mother sat beside the crib in the living room while Nubbins took special pains to be a "good boy"; he rolled over for his nap without argument and listened quietly as Mother read The Night before Christmas...
Munch's hatred of "the public"-which at first responded in kind, though later he got as much as $10,000 for a canvas-lasted a lifetime. Toward the end he worked in a roofless, grass-floored studio surrounded by barbed wire. Only two people were admitted-an expressman and Munch's friend Pola Gauguin, son of the French painter. He named his garden plants after art critics, and gave those who offended him the trowel...
...typical evacuated Nisei student is Oberlin College's lanky, 20-year-old, bespectacled Kenji Okuda. Son of a former Seattle expressman, he was raised as a Protestant, stood second in his high-school class of 500. At the University of Washington he was Y.M.C.A. vice president. Hustled into a Colorado relocation project (his parents are still there) after Pearl Harbor, he was released early this year. At Oberlin, Kenji heeled the college paper, made a hit, became student-council president. Declared the paper: "He was elected primarily on the basis of merit. ... A lesser point...
...Expressman Loening pointed out that for the year ended June 1939, U. S. air lines did a gross business of over $47,000,000, got less than 3% of it from express. Holland's K. L. M. carried almost ten times as much on a ton-mile basis as big Eastern Air Lines. T. A. C. A., lugging everything from pencils to mining machinery through Central America in antiquated Ford "tin geese," carried more than twice the freight load of all U. S. domestic lines...