Word: means
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opinion, Comrade, it is a waste of time if a woman desires to express by a spotlessly laundered blouse or neatly groomed hair that she lives and works in a healthy and free country . . . You are 35, married, and have a child . . . Did you ever think what it would mean to your husband* if he could see you at home in a clean hostess gown of multi-flower print, your cheeks and hands smelling fresh? . . . And, I implore you, don't stand at the hot stove in the same dress you come home in. Put an apron around your...
...several occasions our men . . . had to confront the enemy face to face. Blood has already been shed . . . Rumors are still being heard. At first these rumors were spread by Western persons . . . But we knew that the Red army cannot attack a Socialist country because that would mean the end of Socialism in the world . . . But today those in the East are also trying to intimidate us, disseminating rumors ... of this many and that many Soviet divisions in one place or another . . . We are afraid only of elemental upheavals, droughts and hail . . . [We are] prepared to defend our country against...
...however, does not mean much to a Jap songwriter. Because of a record shortage and slow sheet-music sales, Hattori makes only about 7,000 yen ($16.66) a song. Last month he wrote 20, including several for his movie biography, Eternal Enthusiasm...
...presuming to toss compliments to his betters, such as and specifically me." Still feigning an inability to remember 70-year-old Canby's name, Pegler called him "Mr. Canfield," "doc," "the old boy" and "gramp." Concluded Pegler: "If the old goat wants to get tough . . . what does he mean quoting my piece without permission? I am copyrighted...
Said he: "The president of the greatest paper in the U.S., and by that I mean the New York Times, not the Chicago Tribune* had a talk with the Pope, who incidentally is a very good friend of mine, even if I am a Baptist. [Times Publisher Arthur Hays] Sulzberger told the Pope that . . . there was not a chance I would be in the White House after Jan. 20." When the election was over, the President added, the Pope asked Myron C. Taylor, presidential representative at the Vatican, how the head of a great newspaper could waste a half hour...