Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons quickly learned to know him as a pipe-smoking, stocky, imperturbable Average Man who might have served as model for Punch's famed John Bull. He and Lucy were strict Sabbatarians, would not even read Sunday papers. His radio chats, larded with folksy platitudes about "service" and "playing the game" kept him at No. 10 Downing Street...
...Date as a Model T." Also listed were the American Youth for Democracy (once the Young Communist League) and eleven schools which Tom Clark's sleuths decided were Communist Party incubators. From William Z. Foster, boss Communist in the U.S., came the expected cry: "A purge list . . . takes the United States a long way toward fascism and police-state totalitarianism...
...anywhere. Its incompleteness was "utterly farcical" to New Jersey's Congressman J. Parnell Thomas and to most of the members of his Un-American Activities Committee. Said Thomas: "There are hundreds of Communist and Communist-front organizations alone." Said a committee member: "As up-to-date as a Model T Ford...
...Dizzy Dean at the height of Dizzy's fame, for $185,000 (the Cubs bought a pitcher with a bad arm). Sam Breadon sold baseball heroes as he also sold Pierce-Arrows, and the fertile Cardinal "farm system" which Vice President Branch Rickey built for him produced new-model heroes who won nine National League pennants. St. Louis thought of Sam as a skinflint horse-trader...
...jumbled gloom of the storeroom, a gentle Negro complained of people's incurable acquisitiveness. "They think because they work for U.N. they can get everything. Just 'Gimme, gimme' all day long." In a velvet-draped chamber, visitors admired a model of the future U.N. headquarters (one of the few tangible signs that U.N. had a future). Said an exquisite young lady: "Oh, I think it's going to be fascinating." Then she pointed questioningly at a drab expanse on the model's edge. "Oh that," explained her guide. "That's New York...