Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to his mother: "I know what pain I must have caused you and you know I wouldn't do it if I really could have helped it-mais tu sais, me voilà! That's all that could be said. I know my mind, have known it for a long time, and know that I would never think otherwise. Result: I am the happiest man just now in the world; likewise the luckiest. And for you, dear Mummy, you know that nothing can ever change what we have always been & always will...
Fiftyish Gaus looks out on the panorama of men living with one another through deep brown eyes backed by a mind that is a compound of the soft-boiled romantic and the methodical social scientist. One moment his fancy turns to roaming Chicago's like front and standing back to scan story-packed skyline. The next he is advising a governmental agency on nuances of procedural policy. Here lies perhaps the key portion of his career. In his years at Madison he guided the Wisconsin Executive Council through its pioneer efforts to relieve the excessive burden on the legislature...
...pounds and is a stronger runner. Lowell, however, may find himself in the quarterback slot, now being fought over by Kevin Reilly, Ed Stearns, and Bob Tomasello. Stearns is at present the only quarterback with the crucial qualification of a passing arm. There is little doubt in anyone's mind that Winchester's John West will be playing right halfback when the Freshmen meet Andover on Saturday. Carl Bottenfield, who stymied the Varsity in the first scrimmage two weeks ago, big, fast Dave Warden, and Johnny Carman are the leading contenders for the other half-back...
This week he had changed his mind. Mammy-Singer Jolson, 61, had joined the regulars in one of radio's plushiest assignments: star of NBC's Kraft Music Hall (Thurs. 9 p.m., E.S.T.). Why? Jolson himself was ready with a long-winded explanation. He had tried to persuade the sponsor to let him supply the punch the Music Hall has lacked since Crosby left the show last year. He had been turned down cold. Al's version of it sounded like the lyric of an oldtime Jolson song...
Shirer's comment on this is ". . . mad ... a magnificent resume of all that has gone through [Hitler's] diseased mind." Actually, it is a clear statement...