Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newshens at her press conference: the President had taken "a little cottage" near Washington. Instead of weekends at Hyde Park or sea cruises, he will go to the cottage this summer. Asked if the new "ShangriLa" was in Maryland or Virginia, Mrs. Roosevelt answered: "I cannot say; but it isn't far away...
First: "But what about us? We have thousands of other words. Isn't it very hard for us to keep...
...starter take the section on VALUABLES. "The Committee cannot be responsible for valuables. Anything of this nature should be placed in the custody of one of the banks in Harvard Square." Now granted that it's a very difficult thing to say just what is valuable and what isn't, and an even more difficult thing to tell the banks in the Square apart, we do feel that the authors (for surely this is not the work of one hand alone) could have been more definite. No one has found out at the moment what the attitude of the banks...
...kill us. There must be no Czecho-Slovakia left, no one left in Europe who opposes the German Reich. You might have thought it was an old-fashioned idea to round up hostages and shoot them by the hundreds when one of the conquerors is killed. It isn't. It's effective, and after a while it becomes pleasant, too, whether the hostages are Jews or not." "That reminds me," said the Devil...
...have been, and am, going through) it seems to me that the leveling process of war is peculiarly apparent in our business [Salesmen, whose careers have been seriously dislocated by the war-TIME Letters, May 11], and, being frank, I'm wondering whether or not it isn't a damned good thing that much of the competitive "Buy my whatzis ... it has more super-doopers" is going to be eliminated from our future economy. If it is to be, let us hope that it will be compensated for by an equivalent elimination of politically-and hence-inefficiently...