Word: naturedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Harry Truman dropped by at the Statler Hotel to speak a few words to the ladies of the Women's Patriotic Conference on National Defense, gathered in annual convention. Usually such extemporaneous appearances find the President at his relaxed and good-natured best. This time "he spoke solemnly...
Harry Truman stopped and laughed himself. Democrats cheered and clapped. In the uproar, Russian Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin glanced around in bewilderment, then stared perplexedly at the President, who was waggling a finger at the Republicans. Good-natured as it was, it was still a hooting of the President.
"Design for a Stained Glass Window" is a Problem Play, among other things. The Problem is this: should we cling to our most sacred beliefs when we are faced by adversity and even death in doing so? It is not hard to see that the authors of this play, William...
At grammar school she kept her fellow pupils in stitches by imitating the teachers. At Aptos Junior High she got herself elected student-body secretary, and caused an uproar among her colleagues by delivering the minutes of each meeting in the precise accents and gestures of the earlier speakers. Her...
What She Wants. Now atop the pinnacle for which she has yearned all her life, Carol Channing is thoroughly happy for perhaps the first time. Besides success, she also has a new husband, acquired after a whirlwind courtship in California. Alexander Carson is a big, good-natured bear of a...