Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paper Hat. The bell saved Greenwood. As Big Ben boomed midnight he moved an end to debate and a call to vote. Bedlam broke again. It was almost a minute before he could be heard. Then Tory Sir Gifford Fox raised a parliamentary pinpoint, contended that Greenwood was out of...
To take the late Harold D. Smith's job as vice president of the Bank, new President McCloy picked Robert Livingston Garner, 52, financial vice president of General Foods Corp. Garner, an infantry captain in World War I and former treasurer of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York...
Marie Leighton was adamant about airing. There was no better way to catch pneumonia, she said, than to wear a flannel garment that had not been properly warmed and aired. "And when it comes to things like chemises and drawers, which go next to the skin, it's always...
Only Child. In the committee rooms, things were humming. Presidential Candidate Harold Stassen appeared before Senator Robert A. Taft's Labor Committee to speak his piece on labor legislation. While his onetime protege Joe Ball glowered at him across the table, Stassen declared that the closed-shop ban and...
The board hastily explained that its objection was not to the author's being red but to some of his passages being "too purple to be read by children." Novelist Fast had written too much about breasts, virgins and "oceans of flesh," put phrases like "I lick God'...