Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter Reuther, the cocky, redheaded president of the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers, is a model husband. He neither drinks nor smokes, hates to travel without his auburn-haired wife Mae, and listens to the family phonograph when other men go to nightclubs. When a meeting of the U.A.W. executive council keeps him in downtown Detroit after the dinner hour, he never fails to telephone, always tries to get home for an icebox snack instead of eating in a restaurant...
Personal Traits. He is a stocky, black-haired little man with broad shoulders and a wide-lipped Irish face and a slight trace of brogue. He is humorless; shy around women, but an easy mixer among men. He neither smokes nor drinks, wears ill-fitting blue suits and policemen's box-toed shoes. His health is good. Said a friend: "He lives, eats, drinks, sleeps and dreams politics...
...Governor General, Sir Edmund Head) chose Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1857. The late Goldwin Smith* thought it a poor choice. His snorted comment: "A subarctic village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit." Ottawa (pop. about 160,000) is no longer a village. Neither is it the "Washington of the North" that Sir Wilfrid Laurier hoped that it would be. It is not for want of trying...
...Louis Paul from his novel Breakdown; produced by Paul Czinner and C. P. Jaeger) is a very exhaustive, and very exhausting, study of a dipsomaniac. It reveals Ellen Croy, a Manhattan newspaper columnist (Elisabeth Bergner), as a driven soul, harrowed by something in her life which she can neither exorcise nor explain. The play follows her step by step, relationship by relationship-boss (Anthony Ross), husband (Millard Mitchell), old friend (John Carradine)-down into the pit. Then it slowly drags her back into the light...
...seal a vacuum." A few days later Hitler told Mussolini that "rather than have the conversation over again, he would prefer to have three or four teeth pulled out." Franco soon decided that Spain should stay out of the war and get what it could from both sides. But neither the U.S. nor Britain knew this...