Word: happiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taught economics at Columbia, Nebraska, Texas, Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, Yale. Much to the puzzlement of his more exotic colleagues, he remains in manner the Nebraska-born yokel. Slow-spoken, foot-shuffling, pipe-sucking, he is as crammed with rural lore as an October silo with corn. Johnson's happiest moments include working with his seven children in his Nyack, N. Y. garden...
Priestley Sentiment. Many character types from earlier Priestley novels reappear in the Elmdown Aircraft factory: Sammy Hamp, whose limp and withered arm accentuates the humility that makes him the happiest man in the place; Edith Shipton, the sex-starved spinster whose shoddy affair with a headmaster is replaced by genuine love for the implacably good Arthur Bolton, whose family and little shop have been obliterated by a Nazi bomb; Sister Filey, in charge of the clinic, whose female vitality is boundless and unbounded by the usual conventions...
Italians (except their generals) are the happiest in captivity. They play boccie (a bowling game) and bridge (Culbertson). Both Germans and Italians play their own brand of basketball and soccer-the Germans a particularly energetic variety which keeps some of them in hospital with "soccer knee...
...When I was in the States I had very happy days. Today is the most happiest day in my life when I am an American citizen...
...plenty of money were the sole measure of economic health, U.S. bankers would be the happiest businessmen in the U.S. They are not. Too much money in the banks, combined with too few consumer goods on the market, spells out inflation. And if the U.S. public should try to cash in its big deposits for goods with the same energy with which it attempted in 1933 to switch into cash, all hell would break loose. Said one banker this week: "The tinder is there, the fire may follow...