Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eddie rolled onto his back on the carpet, looked up with a shocked smile and whispered: "Baby, what did you do that for?" Ruth knelt and held his hand. "You like this, don't you," Eddie murmured. Ruth called the telephone operator and said she had shot a man...
...comfort from Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps, who has repeatedly said that he will not devalue. Cripps stands on the flat statement; he will not argue. One of his associates explained last week: "It's the unmentionable subject-like a lady's reputation." One man who recently talked devaluation with Cripps adds: "He would resign rather than devalue-and he is not in a resigning mood...
...real trouble with British exports to dollar areas does not lie in exchange rates, but in Britain's high production costs. Get away from currency entirely and express these in man-hours per unit produced. The British product costs more than the U.S. product because British production is less efficient. No matter how she fiddles with the currencies, Britain cannot expand her U.S. market on a long-range basis until real costs are cut by more efficient machines, management and labor. The present crisis is a powerful pressure on British management and labor to become more efficient. Devaluation...
...Congress leaders were plainly worried. Nehru blamed Congressmen for losing their fervor and for self-seeking-"If we cannot revitalize Congress we must dissolve it in a dignified manner rather than allow it to disintegrate by stages." A Red cloud, though not yet bigger than a man's hand, had appeared on the Congress horizon...
...celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...