Word: havener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donald MacLeod's letter entitled "Red Hats, Tin Horns" reminds me of the story of the Irishman, who, when his friend asked him if he had joined the Protestant Church on losing his faith in the Catholic, rejoined: "Begorra, I might have lost my faith, but I haven't lost my head...
...great men blowing their noses over national radio hookups. UNO's microphones picked up all sorts of odd dialogue. At one point a female whispered urgently: "When you are ready, bang and get them out." Just as urgently, Council Chairman Dr. Quo Tai-chi of China replied: "I haven't got anything to bang with. They have deprived me of the instrument with which to function." All these were little things, but they made UNO something as believable to U.S. newspaper readers as the U.S. Congress or a C.I.O. convention. Perhaps not enough Americans were aware...
...Boston Common, sunning himself on a park bench, an ex-corporal said: "What's the use of working for $20 a week when you get $20 for doing nothing? It's getting pretty monotonous but I haven't been able to find a thing...
...with her seven-year-old daughter Edda. Once Mrs. Göring had been Germany's most spectacularly wealthy woman; now she said tearfully: "I don't know what will become of Edda and me. But there is no use discussing that. What matters is that I haven't the companionship of my husband...
Then he turned up at New Haven's Soundscriber Corporation, whose workers had put in overtime hours to finish two electronic recording machines, for Churchill's use in dictating his memoirs. In gratitude, Churchill rolled off a recorded message to the workers: "This is me, Winston Churchill, speaking himself to you, and I am so glad to be able to thank you in this remarkable...