Word: messe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...virtuoso performance. Stryker thundered and whispered. He banged the jury rail, sketched imaginary portraits, nourished a roll of microfilm until it snapped into a tangled mess. He invoked Almighty God, motherhood and the American flag. He accused the FBI of "impairing" defense witnesses. He pronounced the Government's star witness, Whittaker Chambers, a "traitor, thief, liar, perjurer, enemy of his country and a hypocrite," likened him to a coiled scorpion and a germ in a bottle of milk...
...last week, opposing judges had reached a shaky truce: they would keep courts functioning until the state Supreme Court untangled the mess. Said one judge uneasily: "The court may find that neither set of judges may serve...
...many bull sessions in marble halls; too many beribboned brass hats; too much religious hate among clergymen; too many economic prophets of doom-that's what keeps the European mess boiling...
...continued. "Leaving college and going on to graduate study or out into the world is another. Getting married . . . the loss of a job . . . the death of someone near to us . . . They are the times for which we are unprepared," when we loss our mental peace and "make a mess of our lives...
...hideous blonde wig and passed her off as me. Then he played a screeching record . . . and had the girl mouth along with the words. The result was just awful . . . The image was most unattractive . . ." Dorothy even made threats to sue for "plenty . . . Imagine putting on that horrible-sounding mess and telling everybody I was doing it . . ." Said Milton, through his lawyers: "She is unfamiliar with the actual facts . . ." Then he began trying, still unsuccessfully at week's end, to get Dorothy to appear in person on his next show...