Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ottawa correspondents wrote about the differences between the Australian and their own Prime Minister. King's press conferences are rare, seldom oftener than twice a year. Curtin sees the Australian press twice a day. Curtin chain-smoked throughout his interview, jabbed at the . air with his cigaret holder to emphasize his points. At his press conferences Mr. King usually sits Buddha-like with his hands folded on his lap, seldom lifts his voice above a dreary drone. Curtin welcomed questions, answered directly and enjoyed the session. Mr. King finds a press conference an ordeal, resents questions, seldom answers them...
...vacation, the President called reporters into Hobcaw and with a casual wave of his ivory cigaret holder announced that he was just about up to date on all current business. He had no comment on Sewell Avery, nor had he yet considered a successor for Frank Knox. As the well-tanned President arrived back in Washington, Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, his personal physician, said proudly that his patient had shaken off his winter sniffles and bronchitis, declared: "I am perfectly satisfied with his physical condition . . . excellent shape ... as strong as he was a year...
...spared the sport because it is by no means a young man's game. The best batsman in the leagues is Cliff Daly, a real-estate salesman in his 40s. The best wicketkeeper is probably Evans Hackett, nearing 50. One of the star all-round players is Edmund Holder, an elevator man in his 50s. War did, however, take the top bowler, Roy Huggins. A former shipping clerk, he is one of twelve Negroes now working for a commission at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
Huggins bowled for the Trinidad Club, the present holder of the championship , cup. An all-round dependable of the Trinidad team is Joseph Cameron, who with Hackett and Holder was among the pioneers of Harlem cricket some 30 years ago. Cameron and his brother Henry, operators of an employment agency, are also leaders in the socially desirable Royal Exiles cricket club, which is not in the leagues...
...cool room with blue leather and a blue rug, a couple of etchings and a map, Jack Curtin affects a huge uncluttered desk. A reserved man, shunning formal gatherings, he nevertheless likes to cock one foot on the desk and talk at length. He smokes incessantly-through a bamboo holder-and drinks tea without pause. He has good relations with the press (still sports his Australian Journalists Association emblem on his watch chain) and is a master at handling irate delegations. Recently a party went up from Sydney, determined to have a showdown on a union matter. When they...