Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress, reassert[ing] ... its rights and powers as an equal member of the three great branches of the U.S. Government" by demonstrating its belated independent action in overriding, emasculating and nipping in the bud recent Executive efforts, is no ultimate loss to Presidential prestige...
Over a British airfield, Lieut. Ralph Johnson found he could get only one land-ing wheel of his P47 down; a machine-gun bullet from a German fighter had jammed the other. He went back upstairs to think it over, and Lieut. Colonel Hubert Zemke flew up beside him to see what the trouble was. Their radio conversation, recorded in the field control room...
When his chosen few - several of them plucked from Bible Institute and Sunday School teams - arrived at Chicago's Wrig ley Field fortnight ago for their "spring training," they discovered another of Mr. Wrigley's novel ideas. Part of their train ing was a compulsory course at Helena Rubinstein's Gold Coast beauty salon - to learn about makeup, posture and other whatnots usually neglected by lady athletes...
...King's Counsel, an M.P., a Cabinet Minister before becoming Lord Chief Justice. Kindly, diffident in private, he was sometimes blisteringly outspoken on the bench. "The only impartiality pos sible to the human mind," said he once, "is that which arises from an understand ing of neither side of the case." On judges : "The secret [of being a successful judge consists], I fancy, in two things: first, a prolonged and severe training at the Bar; secondly, a full-bottomed wig. . . . The business of a judge is to hold his tongue until the last possible minute...
MUTINY IN JANUARY - Carl Van Doren - Viking ($3.50). On a January morn ing in 1781, Brigadier General Anthony Wayne wrote desperately to George Washington, informing him of "a mutiny that for a week threatened the Americans with the violent collapse of their whole army and the loss of their prospects of independence." The mutineers (from the Pennsylvania Line regiments, stationed under Wayne at Morristown, NJ.) rebelled at their lack of pay, food, decent clothing. British General Sir Henry Clinton hoped to persuade the malcontents to join him in Manhattan. The full story of the spying and intrigue is told...