Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week an old White House adviser criticized the Act itself, urged that something be done about it. Said James A. Farley, onetime Democratic National Chairman: "Under our present method, a Vice President who succeeds to the Presidency is in the unique position of being able to choose his own successor-without reference to the electorate...
...change was in method, rather than in aims. It could best be summed up in the remark of a close friend of President Truman, who said: "From now on we are playing stud instead of draw poker. There will always be at least four cards lying face up on the table...
...Fall Out" because of the three or four irrepressibles who obeyed by falling flat on their faces. One day an ex-vaudevillian was assigned to calisthenic drill. "Inhale!" he shouted. The men inhaled. "Outhale!" They outhaled. "Sidehale!" "What the hell is that?" a regular corporal demanded. "A new breathing method. Field Manual 36-B, with Kreplach...
...sorry, however, that in headlines and method of presentation you seem disciples of the Boston Traveller. Joe Mitchell . . . admires me very much, so he has pictured me as the sort of person he would like to be. However, his quotations from me are rather inaccurate...
...Leipzig Herr Dr. Bundin chose to die by a method in keeping with his professional interests (he was owner of a big bazooka factory). To a caviar-and-cham-pagne banquet he invited 100 of his cronies. When the last course was eaten, the fat cigars smoked and the fine cognac gone, Herr Bundin pressed a button. He had mined the banquet hall. He and his guests were atomized into dust...