Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your Judgment." The picture-taking went off like clockwork. Each photographer got his one shot in turn; there was no scrambling for position, no request for "just one more." Between the still pictures and movies, Dewey remembered that it was time to order dinner. He asked Paul Lockwood, his burly secretary, to do it. "Use your own judgment, Paul," he called. "Get three lamb chops and three steaks, six double V-8 cocktails, salad, corn, string beans, and chocolate ice cream...
Maine's laconic men have never had much natural respect for a woman's judgment. "Give a woman all the advice in the world and then she'll go ashore with both anchors on the bows," they say. But once in a while they have to make an exception. They have made one for Congresswoman Margaret Chase Smith. Elected to finish the term of her deceased husband in 1940, she was regularly re-elected by her Second District constituents. Last year, when aging Senator Wallace White announced his retirement, she announced herself a candidate for the G.O.P...
...nature," and his regard for it, are exceptionally acute. Those who venerate the best in acting will easily forgive the rare excesses in this Hamlet, and will easily get over disappointments as beautiful as these; they will not soon forget the lively temperateness, the perfect commingling of blood and judgment, the high grace and spirit, which inform the performance as a whole...
...believes that government planning must replace free enterprise as the cornerstone of democratic life. A dependence on stock socialist phrases thus flaws many parts of the book. The American Democracy, for all its numerous flashes of donnish wit, is also windily repetitive, and some times dated in its judgment...
...plump, kindly Robert Morss Lovett is an aged, living monument to the courage, the warm heart-and the poor judgment-of one brand of U.S. liberalism. All Our Years, his expectantly awaited autobiography ("some 23 publishers have expressed a blind but generous faith in this book"), is chiefly important as a record of his personal decency and kindliness. It is the account of a great good will expansive enough to regard even U.S. Communists as well-intentioned...