Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edward W. Pou, worked eight years for Tarheel Tom Morgan's Sperry Gyroscope Co. During the war, he spent his tour of duty as a Marine aviation ground officer at a North Carolina air base, Cherry Point, was back as a partner in Max Gardner's law firm and his executive assistant in the Treasury when the President beckoned...
...reactions are, I think, fairly typical of young people my age. In the Forces, I developed strong Labor sympathies and a firm conviction that the Conservatives were unprogressive and antisocial. I was elated when Labor came into power, but even I have to admit sadly that this last year has been very dull. However, I refuse to pour down accusations and blame on the Laborites, and consider it the result of our impoverished postwar position...
...this Elbert Hubbard rhapsody was Mrs. Mollie Netcher Newbury. He might better have compared her to Hetty Green. From her huge office, bare except for a big rolltop desk and green velvet couch, Mrs. Newbury had run Chicago's Boston Store for 42 years with a hand as firm as it was unknown. So doing, she had become a State Street legend...
...Bell, Book and Candle." Henry VIII stood firm by day, danced the night through with his witch. When the Pope cursed him "with bell, book and candle," and at last excommunicated him, Henry replied that "if the Pope issued ten thousand excommunications, he would not care a straw." Henry exulted because his new Queen was pregnant, and the best necromancers, astrologers and wizards all agreed that the portents indicated an heir to the throne. When, instead, a puling female appeared, Henry's fury was terrible. Was it for this insignificant Elizabeth that he had defied the Pope, divorced...
...complicity in Chicago's Haymarket bombing seven years earlier.* For this he was damned far & wide as a "Socialist," a "wild-haired demagogue." Robert Todd Lincoln, President Lincoln's only surviving son, rose at a Harvard alumni banquet to beg all good Harvard men to "stand firm in the midst of such dangers in the republic." The press screamed that the Governor was encouraging "anarchy, rapine and the overthrow of civilization...