Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked too sedately Edwardian; people did not know what to make of him. Then, partly as a result of his U.S. visit and the widespread rebroadcast of a humanizing TV appearance with Ed Murrow, the British public-and Tory leaders too-began to see their chief in a new light...
...stool regulars at a hotel near the railroad tracks occasionally like to tell a story about the Lehigh professor who set off to shop in North Bethlehem on a windy day, started across the bridge, turned around to light his pipe, and walked back to the campus...
There is a possibility that hidden talent may come to light in later scrimmages and games, he indicated...
During World War II, convinced that fighting men wanted their reading light and sexy, Esquire dropped almost all reading matter that required concentration. Major advertisers drifted away, suspicious of the reader who thumbed over the magazine's trashy mysteries, westerns and pinups. Gingrich left in 1945, but remained a stockholder. In 1952 Smart recalled him, gave him a free hand to change Esquire as he liked...
...conversation even though she had to catch a plane to St. Louis. Dreiser, as Author Hurst now tells it, flew right along with her, but not before asking her husband if he had any objections. He did not. which leads Author Hurst to remark: "This throws a revealing light on my wonderful kind of marriage." Up in the airplane, Dreiser talked all the time. "Damn it," he growled, "up to a year ago I lived all of my life without God, and I might have had Him always...