Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed scads of them, loved the plains but did more than any one man to turn them into a bone yard. As the picture also shows, he deeply suspected the East, as represented by his wife and by railroad capitalists, and made difficulties for himself by telling off the latter in favor of the Indians. And at length he recouped his fortunes by diluting into showmanship the curious honest grandeur he had known when he was young...
...seemed almost rude to suggest that it may also be so cautious as to be dangerous, or to propose that the American people should be informed, aroused and challenged to think and debate their way through the great issues that confront them. Mr. Hull was particular upon this latter point. In this election year, he said, the people bear an especial responsibility in U.S. foreign relations. "It is the responsibility of avoiding needless controversy. ... It is the responsibility for patience...
...suggests the average American idea of the typical Nazi. He fixes his orchestra with a thick-spectacled stare that would do credit to a cinema Prussian. Some conductors get their effects by kindness and psychological subtlety; some approach the technique of a lion tamer. George Szell is among the latter. For him the Met's lions jump through their hoops under dazzling control...
...that the faculty officers are organizing a softball team for entrance in the a forming NSCS league. Here, fellow seniors, is our chance to get even for that 11 page three hour exam of last week. Speaking of that quiz, the axe fell on every class but Jig, the latter landing more men on the "P" list than all the rest of the classes combined. Most of the perennial "P" listers are back with the boys again...
...when he was nine, worked his way through high school and the University of Illinois toward his boyhood dream of becoming an architect. When he graduated in 1931, he had not only an architect's license but also a marriage license. To pay for the consequences of the latter, he took a draftsman's job at Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. He went into selling because a Colgate executive questioned the impact of one of his layouts and he had to prove personally how good it was. The nearest he has been to architecting since was to design his colonial...