Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reclining. Wrote Pearson in his column: "When I was young I had a prof [whose] philosophy was: 'If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade.' The lemon Truman handed me I have squeezed so S.O.B. will stand for 'Servants of Brotherhood.' I am getting up an engraved 'Servants of Brotherhood' membership certificate, and maybe others will join me in enlisting folks who have sacrificed for their fellowmen...
...This country is not planning to make war against anyone ... It does not hold war to be inevitable . . . [But] if we should be confronted again with a calculated armed attack such as we have twice seen in the 20th Century, I should not suppose that we would decide that any action other than the use of armed force would be effective, either as an exercise of the right of self-defense or as necessary to restore the peace and security of the North Atlantic area...
Mayor Bill O'Dwyer played it safe. He thought Franklin would make a "great Congressman," but then qualified it by saying he wouldn't dream of interfering in the 20th. After all, he was a Brooklyn Democrat himself, he observed carefully. Then he sent his secretary to "Irish Night" at the Peter J. Dooling (Tammany) Association to announce that the mayor also recognized the claim of Assemblyman Owen McGivern to the nomination. Tammany Boss Rogers hoped that Republican Governor Tom Dewey would mercifully spare him a special election, leave the seat open until November and give him time...
...once a week privileged Comrade Hoelvold slips across the border to have a powwow with his friends. The Norwegian government, certain that the U.S.S.R. would make him a cause célèbre at the drop of a warrant, leaves him alone. The army finds him handy as an interpreter in tricky border disputes when a wandering cow or peasant gets lost on the Soviet side. As for the neighbors in Kirkenes-"Damn Communism," they whisper, bowing to Gotfred. "But the Russians could be here in a quarter of an hour. We don't want trouble...
...could go on listing many more things, such as the excellent, if at times somewhat forced, staging, which combined to make the Met's production of "Salome" such a memorable event. But the overall boss, the man who took the individual stars and orchestra and co-ordinated them, the man directly responsible for putting over "Salome" was Fritz Reiner. His work during the performance was prodigious. Here was a conductor really running the show, in the pit and on the stage...