Word: loved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full of people who had never been secret agents, movie starlets, U.S. Senators, atomic scientists or stock manipulators. Millions of them had never sat on a flagpole, made the headlines in a love-nest raid or lost a $14,000 Russian sable stole; almost as many had yet to sniff cocaine, snap at a waiter in the Stork Club, sue somebody for libel, own a Jaguar 3½-liter convertible, or pour a champagne cocktail over a blonde's shoulder blades...
Between Hate & Love. Between wars, too, Jack McCloy learned something of the Germans at their best. On an eastbound train in 1929 he ran into his Amherst classmate, Lew Douglas (now Ambassador to Great Britain), and Mrs. Douglas. Arriving in New York, they introduced McCloy to Mrs. Douglas' sister, Ellen Zinsser. McCloy liked Ellen, and liked the Zinsser home at Hastings-on-Hudson. Her father, Frederick, a chemist, was a brother of Harvard's famed Bacteriologist Hans (Rats, Lice and History) Zinsser. Although the elder Zinssers were U.S.-born, the Zinsser family had a German-American flavor...
...Church, which preaches the brotherhood of man, and the primacy of love, provides for priest and wife in their old age just about half the sum needed to maintain a minimum standard of life. It is conduct such as this, conduct bringing religion into disrepute, which in the age of Jesus was called the desecration of God's Name...
...explains, "with the assumption that artists are men and therefore sinners. If their sins are sometimes startling, it is because they are men of imagination, artists. But all spring from our culture and even our religion . . . When some think themselves communist, it is as artists are communist, out of love for the poor. We must free them to work for us, give them the right to paint on our walls, and they will tell our great story as it has not been told in 500 years." To those who would draw the line at the abstractionists he says: "Abstract...
...Malone and Henry Hull) to the cost of a new well, and, to feather the nest of a sick buddy, agrees to stick up just one more train. As helpers, he has a gang of really bad men, who try to doublecross him, and he has the single-minded love of a dingily blonde half-breed (Virginia Mayo...