Word: fellowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Charming Fellow." When round-faced Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Treasury Secretary, took the stand, more flat contradictions went into the record. He said that he did not know Elizabeth Bentley or Whittaker Chambers (TIME, Aug. 16). As to Chambers' story that he had pleaded with White to break away from the Communist party line: "Something I would remember very definitely would be if a gentleman met me and tried to convince me not to go into or not to leave a Communist ring. That I would have remembered. That...
Sportwriters knocked themselves out thinking up new names and superlatives for him: The Sultan of Swat, the Bambino, The Colossus of Clout. He didn't need all that; he was color itself-a fellow built on heroic, swaggering lines, an enormous head on a barrel of a body...
...when a stranger asked the Babe to autograph three baseballs, the Babe said: "Who for?" For a bedridden boy, explained the stranger. "Where is he?" asked the Babe. He insisted on riding the twelve miles to deliver them in person. The boy's mother led the big fellow into the sickroom, and broke into tears as her son sat up in bed. "He's been delirious," she said, "and he thinks he's dreaming...
Melchior, who makes more money in such semi-things as Hollywood musicals than he does at the Met, volunteered to stage some of the operas he knows best-Wagner's Tristan tmd Isolde and part of the Ring Cycle ("ones with not too big a chorus")-with his fellow stars pitching in "on a cooperative basis." If the operas went over, he would try some others. And if he couldn't produce them in the Met, he would do it in a Broadway theater...
...liberal dissenter; on Roosevelt's, the most outspoken of the conservatives. Since retirement, he has spent much of his time plugging for Clarence Streit's world federation. A genial, scholarly man, who relaxes by reading Greek and Latin, he is a lifetime trustee of the university. His fellow trustees, seeking "the best man available," found him in their own midst, cleared his appointment with Stassen. Said Justice Roberts: "The prospect of working with Stassen is a pleasant...