Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steely Marshall eye. "I have only to look at you," said the Special Envoy, "to know that your people will do just what you tell them. Trouble is, you haven't told them, have you?" The commander beamed with confusion and pleasure, admitted that maybe he hadn't spoken loud enough, promised to make amends...
...frightful leer, that Reggie Vanderbilt's 40-year-old widow had been asked to peddle phonograph needles at "$50 a jab." And to make it all practically unendurable, her own daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, with a fortune of $4,500,000, refused to give her a penny. Things hadn't been so embarrassing since the time, twelve years ago, when she was loudly called unfit, and lost custody of Gloria. The tabloids made the most...
...ship news, market reports, etc.) and personal political pamphleteering to a heterogeneous recording-interspersed with mighty "crusades"-of generally unrelated and unexplained events. A business man, say, could find the sports section intact, but he had to read every item in his daily paper to make sure that he hadn't missed something of significance to him. TIME proposed to change that. Its original prospectus said...
...supreme effort he managed to be duller and more dignified than the mayor. Seattle voters, confronted almost for the first time with two polite candidates, hardly knew where to turn. As for Vic Meyers, he hadn't looked as happy in years...
...Iturbi, warm-blooded conductor-pianist, shaved & bathed in cold water for a few days, then took action against his Los Angeles plumber, who had his hot-water heater. The plumber, charged Iturbi, hadn't carried out a repair job as promised, but demanded $50 before he would return the heater. The chattering maestro sued for $3,000 damages...