Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recessed proceedings to halt a distracting grating noise coming from under the counsel table. The noise proved to be a house mouse (Mus musculus) calmly gnawing the sole of a newspaper reporter's shoe. Newshawk William Alexander, of the Long Island Daily Press, had been so busy he hadn't noticed. Judge Golden had the mouse caught and executed. Passing lightly over the mouse's fate, the New York Times soberly regarded Newshawk Alexander, praised his powers of concentration, added: "He approaches his duties with single-mindedness. He looks up, not down. It is possible to foresee...
...Brock hadn't thought much about sketching in Cairo; but he reported last week from Budapest that the more he talked with talkative German soldiers the more certain he was that the Nazi machine would aim point-blank at Cairo and the Suez Canal very soon. Making the most of his talent for getting around, Correspondent Brock pieced together the following agenda: By the end of this week the Nazis intended to bulldoze Turkey into permitting the passage of German troops and equipment, lending air bases to the Luftwaffe, placing roads, railroads and wires at complete disposal...
...sure those had been the exact words although he hadn't heard them since long ago when he was a miserable Freshman with a deathly fear of taking cuts. But he could still remember perfectly how the lecturer had looked, sitting on the corner of the New Lecture Hall desk, driving home each point with gesticulations of the pointer...
...swing fad did, however, have more permanent effects than the Big Apple and the Suzie Q, in that it brought many people nearer a kind of music they hadn't understood before. The growth of popularity of improvised jazz, built around the individual self-expression of the musician, has been a direct result of the interest of people who looked behind the jump-jump and the jive, and the screeching horns and shimmying drummers, but it still has a long way to go. Writing in the Sunday Herald Tribune a couple of weeks ago, Benny Goodman hit the proverbial nail...
Rollerman Solt, who has ten children of his own, from six months to 15 years, said later: "I stood on the brake. ... I could have jumped off if it hadn't been for all those cars and children. . . . The roller was headed for a busload of school kids coming up the hill. I thought of my ten. I wondered how they would look after that roller passed over them-and I knew then I wasn't going to jump. I couldn't see how I was going to get through that mess of cars and children...