Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied military men, who have had to fight in Africa and Italy with one hand and politick with the other, the prospect of more behind-the-lines chaos sounded dismal. To London and Algiers, who reacted quickly through long-faced cables from news correspondents, it sounded like fresh evidence of a hazy U.S. foreign policy. The French in Algiers were especially gloomy in the belief that the U.S. wants to do business with Vichy again...
Free Enterpriser. The Boston speech was only one of twelve that busy Eric Johnston made last week. Both the speech and the week were typical. The speech was an almost electrically fresh restatement of old but much neglected truths. Its impact derived from its clarity, frankness and vigor; from Businessman Johnston's position as head of the traditionally hidebound Chamber, and from his steadily growing personal prestige. Since his election to the Chamber presidency in 1942, he has hopped over the U.S. city by city, to South America, to England, talking constantly at and with businessmen, labor leaders...
...Brien, Chicago Daily News columnist, wrote this simple story of how a father feels when he says good-by to a soldier son. Before the year was out, millions of Americans felt that they knew slim, tall (5 ft., 11 in.) Donel O'Brien, 20, a fresh, handsome kid with wavy blond hair and a quick, Irish grin. For twelve years, Howard Vincent O'Brien had been offering Daily News readers a pleasant column of unspectacular introspection called All Things Considered. The morning he said good-by to Donel, Columnist O'Brien caught the public where...
...dancing with false gaiety on a rumbling volcano-reached the U.S. last week. It came from the New York Times' former Paris fashion correspondent, Kathleen Cannell, who arrived in Manhattan on the rescue-ship Gripsholm. She alone of all the diplomats, wounded veterans and chichi expatriates aboard, was fresh from the capital city of a captive nation...
...actress botch up good lines as badly." Next day, with knightly gallantry, the Theatre Guild ran an ad in the World-Telly headed "Here's to Annabella from 15 Drama Critics." For her performance, the 15 had showered on her such words as "charm," "sparkle," "warmth," "appealing," "delightful," "fresh as a breeze...