Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Rome she took up with a flock of smart but unimportant young people outside the best cliques of Roman society. She was fond of dancing and nightclubbing. She played bridge, generally at ¼? a point. The Count and Countess went their separate ways more frequently. One of her more intimate friends was Dino Alfieri (Under Secretary for Press & Propaganda), a great lady's man who boasts that he personally selects all the stenographers in his office. When Count Ciano was appointed Foreign Minister, Alfieri got Ciano's old job as the Press & Propaganda Minister...
Assets of Paul McNutt for the Presidency begin with his physical appearance and vigor. He is handsome to a Hollywood degree. Women flock to see him. He has a Texas wife (Kathleen Timolat of San Antonio), as wise as she is charming, and a good-looking, 18-year-old daughter, Louise. He has false teeth but able Dentist B. K. ("Kirk") Westfall of Indianapolis sees to it that they do not impede his public speaking, which is of the best. He can pour it out so dynamically that his eyeballs pop. His radio voice is not pale, even beside Franklin...
...title. As it stands, Paris is just a naughty notion in the head of a waitress named Jenny Swanson (Joan Blondell), who has big gold-digging ideas but not the true killer instinct. Jenny ends up as a sort of middle-aged Shirley Temple, patching up a flock of romantic tatters, curing rich old Olaf Brand's gouty hypochondria with extra blankets and aquavit, reminding him: "Swedes need to sweat." Nearest Jenny ever gets to Paris high life is Manhattan's sotty El Morocco, where she surveys all the bibbing and napery with a waitress...
...orderly as a flock of well-shepherded sheep, 453 left-minded U. S. novelists, poets, critics and journalists met last fortnight in Manhattan. Brought together as the Third American Writers' Congress, they and an audience of more than 2,500 were addressed on opening night in Carnegie Hall by English Novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner ("The pen is not mightier than the sword, but it is as mighty"); by Exile Thomas Mann ("Fascism has overstepped its mark ... its decline is already determined."); by Eduard Benes, ex-President of Czecho-Slovakia ("a kind of United States of Europe will...
...yellow paper in her hand, and generally gets curious about something and starts telephoning people. She runs up tremendous telephone bills calling Washington and London. At teatime people start dropping in: friends, ex perts and refugees. She almost always goes out to dinner, or has a flock of people to her apartment. She seldom talks anything but world affairs and seldom stops talking them. Her husband has been heard to shush her after hours of it. When she is alone again late at night, if she is worked up about something, she will sit down and write a column...