Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stooped with 69 years, striding gravely in a worn, shiny blue serge suit, his hair silvery-white, his face pale as candle wax, his brown eyes a little sharp under his salt-&-pepper eyebrows. Little Sol Bloom scrambled down from his eminence to be photographed with Secretary of State Hull. Mr. Hull sat down, began to read his prepared statement, his long pale hands trembling slightly...
Secretary Hull restated the objectives of the Administration's foreign policy: 1) peace and security for the U. S. with advocacy of peace, and limitation and reduction of armament as universal international objectives; 2) support for law, order, justice and morality and the principle of nonintervention; 3) restoration and cultivation of sound economic methods and relations, based on equality of treatment; 4) development in the promotion of these objectives, of the fullest practicable measure of international cooperation; 5) promotion of the security, solidarity and general welfare of the Western Hemisphere...
...Hull's voice was deep with conviction as he went along, giving a simple out line of the course of world events since 1931-the aggressions of Japan, Italy, Germany. Said Mr. Hull: "Mankind is today face to face, not with regional wars or isolated conflicts, but with an organized, ruthless and implacable movement of steadily expanding conquest...
...story concerns a family in which insanity not only runs but "fairly gallops." Two sweet Brooklyn spinsters (Josephine Hull & Jean Adair) have taken to putting lonely old men out of their loneliness with a compound of elderberry wine, arsenic, strychnine and cyanide, followed by Christian burial in the cellar. In these obsequies they have been assisted by a potty nephew (John Alexander) who regards himself as Teddy Roosevelt, the cellar as the Panama Canal, the bodies as yellow-fever victims, and the stairway to the second floor as San Juan Hill...
...across the plains and mountains of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas. Other Navy patrol bombers of the same type (Consolidated PBY) had made so many nonstop hops of 2,500 and 3,000 miles that this delivery flight from the factory was a routine matter. The ship, with its hull built only for landing on water, was now rushing over a land where Spanish conquistadors, men in covered wagons, desert rats had died for want of water. But the two officers, the five crewmen gave themselves up to the habit of flight, the saving certainty of airmen that all landings...