Word: mason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some were going for the adventure. Wrote one: "New land. Less people. More elbowroom." Some thought they would have a better chance than in the U.S. to start businesses of their own. Many had been taken with the Australian climate and pace of living. Wrote ex-G.I. George Mason: "[Down there], Babbitts and go-getters are conspicuously absent. The people are happy, and in no hurry to slaughter themselves...
...with the mallet was not Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, as some wags suggested. He was a mason and he was making a new exit under orders from the U.N. fire marshal. But when he finished, there would be a new door for Gromyko to walk...
...keep its twelve employees "contented and happy," Chicago's M. Glen Miller advertising agency last week launched a plan to give employees a year's vacation with pay after every six years of work. First to go was Stenographer Nellie Mason, who was required only to 1) spend the time in some constructive way and 2) write the office once a week. Miss Mason will spend her sabbatical year touring...
...host who entered was not Hoover but Federal Trade Commissioner Lowell Mason; he had paid $84 out of his own pocket for the luncheon, including the roses, currently selling at the summer bargain price of 72? a dozen. With Mason were familiar capital figures: New Jersey's lumbering Senator Albert Hawkes, Presidential Economic Adviser Edwin Nourse, White House Aide Charles Murphy, New York's Congressman Frederic Coudert. There was one stranger, a fierce-eyed, one-armed man whom nobody knew...
...nervous yawn started by Steelman floated around the table. Mason at last introduced Sir Frederick with a reference to "the fog about the two FBIs." Sir Frederick, in a high-pitched stammer, replied with some verse that praised Queen Elizabeth for having "stayed in town while London Bridge was falling down." Then, shifting from one foot to the other, he spoke of international trade as "the one thread from which the fabric of peace and security in the world must be woven...