Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient urn, a native rug inscribed to XAPPT Z. TPOTMAN. The President was also in a mood of goodwill and generosity. He was busy last week bestowing little presidential favors on the Congress, in his campaign to save the Fair Deal. Many a Congressman was surprised and flattered to find the President of the United States on the telephone, calling for just a friendly chat...
...urged Mrs. H. to take a year-long trip around the world and see everything. The New York Daily News thought there was a better way: "Come to New York . . . and just stay here till the sands run out . . . There is next to nothing [that] you can't find . . . even dude ranches...
...best-selling non-fiction book in the country. From the sedate lending libraries of New England to the bustling women's clubs of the West Coast, people are reading and talking about Poet Merton's sensitive, unhappy groping through the litter of modern civilization to find peace at last. Word-of-mouth endorsements are largely responsible for the demand; bookstores are accustomed to coping with those who did not quite catch the title and come in asking for "Seventh Storey Monk" or "Second Storey Mountain." Protestants and Catholics, businessmen and housewives, in 26 weeks since its publication, have...
From the university's music-department head, O. Anderson Fuller, came a brisk reminder: "In this song you will find such words as 'mammy', 'pickaninny' and 'darkies', which render any song unfit and unworthy of such a high honor." Lincoln's orchestra, he wrote, would have to decline the invitation to play...
...wonder that, years later, Shaw was to find his niche in the Fabian Society -"a minority of cultural snobs" who, he says, standing haughtily apart from the English proletariat, permeated the governing class and helped utterly to change the face of Britain...