Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court hastily adjourned for 20 minutes to give Kostov a chance to read his confession over. When the court reconvened, Traicho Rostov, a colorless little man who looked like a small-town schoolmaster, still firmly stood his ground. For the first time in the weird history of Communist show trials, a major defendant had stepped out of the part assigned him and had yelled defiance till the end at the hidden author of the script.*Defendant Kostov provided some biting lines of his own. Questioned about Tito's police chief, Alexander Rankovic, he said: "I went to a banquet...
...Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York discovered that there's nothing like an oldtimey masked ball to attract partygoers. Staging a masquerade in the Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom for its Pension Fund, the Philharmonic lured in 1,200 masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open-faced fund-raising parties. Among the celebrities and socialites who showed up (at $25 a ticket): the white-tied Marquess of Milford Haven and his American fiancee, Mrs. Romaine Simpson; black-tied ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin...
...students at Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., Executive Editor Gideon Seymour of the Cowles brothers' Minneapolis Star and Tribune (combined circ. 105,332) last week gave his considered opinion on certain columnists. "They are all journalistic racketeers-I mean pitchmen," said Editor Seymour. "They are like the oldtime medicine men. They have to produce a sensation...
...doubt if we ever changed anybody's opinion about anything . . . Perhaps people modify or intensify or otherwise alter their opinions by something someone else has said or written, but basically opinions are like fingerprints: they never change, and no two are precisely alike in every respect. The height of art is to create in people's minds an involuntary and unconscious alteration of belief. You can't change an opinion by attacking the opinion or the holder thereof, or by praising and ballyhooing an opposite opinion. Opinions are changed from within, never from without...
...Many things operate to keep an editorial writer's opinion of himself in proper perspective. He can never be sure of himself, for while he may write his heart out about something that really matters without attracting the least attention, let him mention some trifling subject like pumpkin pie [which Grimes recently likened to axle grease] or the price of putty, and the compliments or condemnations pour...