Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican 80th Congress, Jenner and his fellow isolationists had felt duty-bound to tone down their opposition to party-and bipartisan-policy. With the Democrats back in control, their coats were...
...jail atop Berkeley's two-story, grey stucco Hall of Justice the old crook, with the air of a man whose lifework was done, was garrulous about his career. Back in 1920, arrested for stealing a car, he learned safecracking from a fellow convict during a seven-year stretch in the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe. Parry had stolen around $250,000 in his career, he bragged, and he had pulled 250 jobs. He didn't feel he had been greedy. Said he: "You've got to make a lot to get along. There...
...there is any truth in such a story, it may be what Rivera's friendly enemy and fellow muralist, Communist David Siqueiros, calls la verdad verdadera-the true truth-meaning something poetically, if not factually, true. "What is marvelous with Diego," says Siqueiros, "is that he never tells a 100% lie." Frida agrees: "He is such a liar as are poets or children who have not been turned into idiots by their parents or the school...
...will always remember the day that I met the undertaker [of the Revolution] ... At eight o'clock in the morning we entered the offices of the Central Committee. I glanced at my fellow guests. Smirking with satisfaction, drooling with superiority, a look of pre-eminence over all other mortals . . . plastered on their faces, they might have been entering Paradise . . . Suddenly a peanut-shaped head, surmounted by a military haircut and decked off with a magnificent pair of long moustaches, rose above them . . . one hand slipped into his overcoat and the other folded behind him, a la Napoleon . . . Comrade Stalin...
...women's indoor championships, California's bouncy 25-year-old Gertrude ("Gussie") Moran took the court for the finals against fellow Californian Nancy Chaffee. Gussie was out to prove that her strong semifinals play against National Champion Margaret Osborne du Pont at Forest Hills last September was no fluke. She did; hitting a powerful ball, she made it a 35-minute match...