Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once accused me in your columns of being "vinegary," and on another occasion labeled me as "a minor league wit," you will realize how it pains me to write this letter. Nevertheless your magazine over the last four weeks has been a major league triumph, and as a fellow craftsman in the black art of journalism, I must pay this tribute...
...have served as state and federal prosecutor for many years. I know that conviction of the innocent is rare indeed, but it did happen here, and it hurts to know that some of my fellow Americans are feasting upon...
...post-reception speech, delivered before 500 Bloomingtonians at a dinner in the Illinois Hotel, that made his fellow Democrats jump with joy. The speech was sometimes folksy (with recollections of Halloween pranks), sometimes eloquent, always forthright. Stevenson laid into his rival, Republican Governor Dwight H. Green, with one haymaker after another. He accused the Green administration of shaking down Illinois businessmen, of being responsible for the deaths of in men in last spring's Centralia mine tragedy, of neglecting the upkeep of once-model state institutions. He cried: "The unconscionable spoils machine which . . . now holds the state...
...Delegate Warren Austin last week read to the Security Council the long-awaited "clarification of the U.S. position" on Palestine. After 20 minutes of Austin's ponderous prose, a fellow delegate summed up his remarks in this mocking sentence: "We must do nothing-and do it quickly...
...happiest surprise of the show had come toward the end: the last quarter-acre proved that France was now enjoying a tapestry renaissance, sparked by Painter Jean Lurçat (TIME, June 24, 1946); Fellow Artists Raoul Dufy, Marcel Gromaire and Henri Matisse designed many of the new tapestries, and the traditional weavers of Aubusson executed them...