Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the committees went into their marathon, Beaverbrook and Harriman wasted no time contemplating their gavels. They talked figures at each other, rushed out to see a few sights, did a little shopping (Lord Beaverbrook bought some caviar and strawberry jam), met some real generals, called on Premier Joseph Stalin and roared mutual urgencies, and generally thrashed about at what the Russians delightedly called "Americanski temp...
...Aluminum Co. of America is not an illegal monopoly. So last week said Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey, in the first third of his marathon decision on the longest court trial in U.S. history...
...Schneider Roosevelt took and passed her driver's test at Bethesda, Md. . . . In the Columbia River waters, where Franklin D. Roosevelt failed to get a nibble in 1934, daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger hooked four Royal Chinook salmon. Young grandson "Buzzie" got one. . .In Toronto at the International Typewriting Marathon, typists who copied the complete works of Shakespeare in 1939, H. G. Wells's The Outline of History in 1940, last week typed The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Yelped the press: "Roosevelt is a trail blazer of criminal unscrupulousness . . . Aggressor No. 1 . . . a marathon runner in his pursuit of war. . . . Roosevelt thus further proves that the provocatory assault on little Iceland was only a beginning...
...universe of knowledge. Many Catholics are inclined to apologize for them; but I think that is unwise. They are embarrassing but not significant, and quite harmless as long as their tantrums do not lead them to break the furniture. They will disappear in time like those other exhibitionists - the marathon dancers and flagpole sitters - who amused America for a while and vanished...