Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...county elections outside London, there was also a trend against Labor. So far, in these elections, the Tories had gained 360 seats and lost 19; Labor had gained 69 and lost 362. This did not necessarily mean that Labor was certain to be licked in 1950. It did mean that Labor would no longer find it easy to sell Britons Sir Stafford Cripps's austerity program (see below) as the only true high road to a new land of pie-in-the-sky. In Berlin, where the news reached him, Herbert Morrison put it mildly: "The situation is difficult...
...that in for fun," Kingman explains. "If people take my work too seriously, I'm disappointed. Of course, my pictures are sarcastic too. I mean, the signs say 'Go Here, Go There' when you don't really have to, and on Sundays, when there's no traffic, the stoplights keep on blinking as if they were crazy. Don't you feel that...
...college had other benefactors. A roistering Irishman named "Jockey" John Robinson, who had made a fortune out of the "finest, fruitiest, most ropey" rye whisky in the region, gave $50,000 too. That did not mean the college's troubles were over. The Civil War left Washington College in desperate straits. Four months after Appomattox, it invited Robert E. Lee himself to be president. He was the one man, the college thought, who could save the day. Lee agreed to try, at a salary of $1,500 a year ("if that sum can be raised"). He started the schools...
...defense of the measure, witnesses stated that there is a need in the state for this law, not so much for the liberal arts colleges as for graduate, professional, and secretarial schools; here discrimination may mean not only loss of an education, but also loss of job opportunities. Proponents of Senate 133 say that those schools which follow a non-discriminatory policy ordinarily have nothing to fear from anti-bias legislation, while those that have the questions and quotas can alter their stand without waiting for commission pressure...
Characteristic in December. The trouble, as he later explained it, was that he had trusted people too much. "I knew how to say 'no,' but could seldom bring myself to say it. A woman and a politician must say that word often, and mean it-or else." But if he had any regrets Jimmy kept them to himself. Said he: "I have carried youth right up to the fifty-yard mark. I had mine and made the most...