Word: nugget
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What Every Woman Knows proves a decided contrast to Henry. Barrie's rather faded comedy of the great hidden role wives play in their husbands' careers remains a sort of unfading matinee attraction. It is cleverly "human" without being even slightly real. Its little golden nugget of truth is heavily coated with all the familiar Barrie chemicals-romantic fancy, sentimental charm, playful humor, terrifying coyness and thick Scotch burr. And in creating plain Maggie Shand, whose wit and wisdom were the making of her priggish husband's fortune, Barrie was practicing all Maggie's guile...
...problem was how to give them what they wanted, get them back to work and still not make WSB look too silly. The man of the hour turned out to be Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach, who crawled into the musty archives of Government precedents and came out with a nugget...
...presidential aspirant Stassen, the nugget of victory had many facets. He had come back from defeat in the Nebraska primary (TIME, June 24). He had increased his prestige enormously within the Republican party. He had proved that the voters of traditionally isolationist Minnesota were willing to listen to his pro-U.N., pro-British Loan brand of internationalism. Said he: "A decisive victory for a progressive Republican policy...
...World, The West. In the American tradition, San Francisco had boomed into being-in the stampede which followed the discovery of a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill. The town had grown richer in the raw, exciting days of the Comstock and Mother Lodes. Proud of the independence its riches brought, it had still reached for contact with the eastern U.S., first by stagecoach, then by the pony express, then by the transcontinental railroad...
...will certainly not interest those who regard the United States as a some what impoverished gold mine out of which they can still scrape a nugget or two for themselves, It will interest only those who think of the United States as their land - a land they know and love - a land that became rich through the industry, thrift, and enterprise of its people, and will never regain its prosperity in any other...