Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-Communist resolution passed at the C.I.O's Atlantic City convention was mild enough. But it had given state C.I.O. councils the green light to crack down on local Reds. Within the last fortnight both Massachusetts and New Jersey had done so. Last week it was Wisconsin's turn...
Last week, in an office in the gloomy Chamber of Deputies, aged (74), ailing Premier Leon Blum ruminated wearily over a light dinner of mushroom omelet, plain lettuce salad and toast, then confided in a tired whisper: "An omelet is easier to make than a Cabinet . . . things are more complicated than I thought...
...pace. Some times he shook a finger at the audience, again he stood arms akimbo and bit off his words. The fascinated audience laughed with him, grew serious with him, sympathized with him when he said he had just come from a sickbed and had to wear a light raincoat (which he took off after half an hour...
...tourists were on hand, bathed and breakfasted, for the 9 o'clock act. A rebel light plane buzzed the hotel entrance, gave loungers there a quick machine-gun burst. By the time the next and last rebel plane swooped down, rotund Bernard Relin, L.A.V.'s New York pressagent, had clucked his willing charges behind stone pillars and solid masonry...
...week was brooding Eugene O'Neill. He has "Seraphic Sex Appeal," an artists' agent named Leora Thompson told the press. She put him in a special beauty class with Symphony Maestro Dimitri Mitropoulos, Tyrone Power, General Omar Bradley, and Irving Berlin. "It seems like a light from the cosmos shines in their eyes," said she. "Sanctified sex is what it really...