Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columnists' vicious attacks on incumbent Secretary James Forrestal held the President's announcement up: he would not let Forrestal leave under fire. Last week, with the heat off, Harry Truman finally accepted Forrestal's resignation with an appreciative "Dear Jim" note. Then the President formally picked as Forrestal's successor big, beefy Louis Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt's onetime Assistant Secretary of War and the Democrats' deserving fund-raiser in the campaign...
...another. Its natives live in it like caretakers in a museum, scornful of the gawking tourists, keeping aloof from the public gaze, resentful of being crowded, vaguely proud of the privilege of darting through the doors marked "private." It has no theater, little music, no night life of note, no distinguished restaurants. Washington society is an exhaustive effort of Washingtonians to have...
Gwynne's solemn and somnolent Pablo was a thing of beauty. He opened and closed the show on a high note of artistic lassitude, and managed to dominate almost every scene he appeared in from a completely horizonal position...
...sister Maria hustled back to Spain with a sackful of his belongings. Since then, she has lived in seclusion with her surviving brother German in the sleepy Andalusian village of San Fernando, jealously guarding a shabby bag which contains La Atlantida-comp-leted down to the last note...
...like a lamb and the Grapefruit League too, thought Vag, making a mental note to write for these opening day seats...