Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southerners. The Southerners had been saying right along that any change in the present cloture rule would open the way for further attacks on the long-cherished right to talk in the Senate as long as voice and kidneys held out. Republican enthusiasm for the anti-filibuster fight, never great, dwindled...
...relishes her position to the full. She has learned not to call society editors to read them her guest list (the girls are glad to call her), but she is not above inquiring coyly after a dinner: "How many ambassadors did I have last night? Six or eight? I never can remember." She often summons her guests from afar, likes to remark casually: "So-and-so is flying in from San Francisco for my dinner tomorrow...
...never believe...
Yale's late William Lyon Phelps had only one reservation about his friend President Angell. "There should be some dullness in every college president," Phelps once remarked. "Knowing Angell intimately, I have never been able to detect even a shadow...
...beds and opened doors that were already warm, the fire tore through the roof, rushed crackling along the eaves to the wings. Some students dashed out before it was too late. Some jumped from windows, others tried to climb down the ivy that covered the stone outside. Still others never got out at all. When dawn came, there was nothing left of "Old Kenyon" but its smoke-blackened outer walls...