Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left side of the front cover is a string of letters from which we deciphered "Harvard" and "Lampoon" without too much trouble. We were a little perplexed by all this until we turned to page three and saw there an ad for Steuben Glass. This finding may not mean much to you but we happened to have an odd copy of The New Yorker around at the time and it, too, had a Steuben Glass ad on page three. Naturally this aroused us somewhat and the case was settled when we found an article on page 19 by Sidney Namlerep...
...vote against Communism. "The rumor has spread that the Americans and British will leave . . . How unfounded!" Berliners believed it and voted down Communism. Relying on the U.S., they are gambling with their lives, 100 miles inside the Iron Curtain. A U.S. retreat from Berlin's ruins would mean that the conscience of the West has been outflanked...
...symbols. The great statue of Frederick the Great, still boxed in brick against bombs that have not fallen for three years-is this the city's sly hint of new German militarism waiting another chance? The great Soviet tank on the Potsdamer Chaussee, mounted on concrete-does it mean something that it faces out from the city, pointed westward? The American signs-are they unintentionally pointed in announcing: "Think, act, drive carefully-the life you save may be your...
King stole the show. When Defense Minister Brooke Claxton, club president, proposed a toast to "the King," the banquet pianist thought he could mean no other King but the Prime Minister, and burst into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Grinning happily as the Reformers almost brought down the Blue Room ceiling with their cheers, King spoke vigorously for 45 minutes on the theme of the great Liberals Quebec has produced. To the list of "giants" headed by Laurier, King tactfully added the name of Quebec Liberal Leader Adélard Godbout, with whom he had "shared...
Would he be as religious-minded as his predecessor, Nicholas Murray Butler? Said Eisenhower: "I am one of the most intensely religious people I've ever known. That doesn't mean that I necessarily adhere to any particular sect . . ."*Was he planning to make any drastic changes? Replied Ike carefully: "I hope to become a useful member of the community, of which, frankly, I have always been frightened. It is going to be quite a task for me. I have nothing to say about education. I don't know enough about it. Right...