Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years I have known him, declaring that he "felt, and was, better" than he had been in ten years. He flexed his arm, and his biceps were hard as the heel of his shoe. (He works with dumbbells every morning.) I think he'd love a chance to take someone on and show how much of the boxing cunning he has kept from the days when he held the championship of City College...
...items more heartily welcomed by the Italian people. In Rome's streets and cafés there were handshaking, backslapping, happy chortling until B. Mussolini's police impressed upon his people that such joy was unseemly in a nation which was supposed to be learning how to love war and think it beautiful (TIME...
...imaginable. Only I, myself, could have made such an offer, although I knew millions of Germans disagreed with me. . . . Over a period of four months I have been looking on. . . . I proposed a solution on the basis of direct negotiations. For two long days I have been waiting. . . . My love of peace and my endless patience should not be mistaken for weakness. . . . I am now determined to talk the same language to Poland that Poland has been talking to us. I have given in to the Western Powers for quite some time...
...female patients precipitate a crisis in a love triangle involving a marine radioman in the waiting room. A middle-aged staff surgeon, wiped out in the crash of a big firm of drugmakers, commits suicide. In the operating room Surgeon Cavanaugh performs a "radical breast removal" in a state of jitters. (Six of his last nine cases had died.) The crisis comes when the lights go out. As they come on again he is suddenly his old self again. "For a minute," he quips, "I thought we'd forgotten to pay our light bill...
...lawyer, Arthur Train has been assistant district attorney of New York County. As a writer, he has authored 40 books from love stories (The Needle's Eye) to firsthand reporting of his police and court experiences (Courts, Criminals and the Camorra). But most people know Arthur Train as the creator of tall, gaunt, kindly, shrewd, humorous, cigar-smoking Lawyer Ephraim Tutt, who by using the tricks of the law to outsmart the tricks of the law, manages to evoke a brand of justice that, if not strictly according to Blackstone, is humane and just...