Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baptist. [Times Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger told the Pope that . . . there was not a chance I would be in the White House after Jan. 20." When the election was over, the President added, the Pope asked Myron C. Taylor, presidential representative at the Vatican, how the head of a great newspaper could waste a half hour "in so misrepresenting the facts...
Like a dervish whirling at three different speeds at once, the U.S. record industry has begun to come apart at the seams. Its head. RCA Victor, has gone flying off at 45 r.p.m.; its right arm, Columbia Records, has spun away at 33½-r.p.m. The body of the industry, including a good part of the Victor and Columbia product, has continued to turn at 78 r.p.m. But one by one, other record companies have been dragged after the two big innovators. Last week Capitol Records, which had already begun to press at the 45 speed on Victortype, seven-inch...
...huge, hanging globe of the world which helps them follow Anglo-Iranian's worldwide operations. This week, they were there for the company's 40th annual meeting. With a Scottish twinkle, gaunt, grey Sir William Eraser, for eight years Anglo-Iranian's chairman and operating head, imparted the good news: Anglo-Iranian had turned in 1948 earnings of ?50.7 million ($204.3 million) before taxes, the biggest in its history...
Mahmout offered to deliver the mules to Athens at $325 a head. Two U.S. traders offered bids of $320 and $328. The Greek government rejected all three bids as too high...
...Emily." She turned her head . . . towards him helplessly . . . Dorset said in his sultry voice, his voice of a purring tiger: "I am going to kiss you, Emily. Do you mind?" She felt herself dissolving . . . His eyes, clear and ice-grey between their long lashes, were full of moonlight...