Word: neither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long enamored of Michael but kept irom him by history ("war is contemptuous of love"), was reported seriously considering going into a nunnery. "Will she say to the world, farewell?" throbbed the New York Journal-American. "Will she take the last step and enter?" At week's end, neither she nor her press-agent was sure...
...Boer War came, then the spot of bother of 1914-1918, then World War II. The Queen's domains were whittled away, but Campbell stirred neither drum or gun to save them. No one bothered him. Even at Victoria Barracks last week they still did not bother the old man (he was 80). In fact, he was a problem to modern, Socialist Britain-his records, of course, were lost. Someone suggested he go to Chelsea Royal Hospital, but it admits only veterans recommended for good conduct. "How," asked an official contemplating Campbell's case, "can you recommend good...
Twisted Facts. It was neither true nor new, and it had already been investigated at length by Congress. Before the Tribune twisted them, the facts were these: last January Congress had approved the Smith-Mundt bill, which set up a bureau to run the Voice of America and otherwise see that the U.S. story is told abroad. The bill called for the widest use of private agencies in telling that story. The free, nongovernmental press, said Congressmen who toured Europe last summer, was the best weapon against Russia's propaganda...
...unlike the Ring Lardner version. A lithe 170-pounder, Richie is well-dressed, polite and as serious about baseball as he is about most other things. On the road, he goes to a lot of movies and lounges in hotel lobbies, like other ballplayers, staring idly at passersby. He neither smokes nor drinks (about three bottles of beer a year don't count...
...they do not tell in the book, and neither does anyone else. Most whodunit fans will find Blood on the Dining-Room Floor an elaborate leg pull. It is also an expensive one. Beautifully printed from handset type, handsomely bound, the initial edition (626 copies) sells for $6. As an example of the bookmaker's art, it is a delight to hand & eye. But anyone who buys it merely for the plot deserves to have his nose rubbed in three of Author Stein's sentences: "Out of what. Out of nothing. Silly that...