Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace and Jesse Jones sat at table together-but three men sat between them. Occasion: a Cabinet meeting. Ten days earlier they had called each other lying bunglers (TIME, July 12). Neither had taken back one word. They left the White House by separate doors, each still holding fast...
Yes, she found most everything to be true--except Melvin. She learned that he had marched in the same parade with the Radcliffe WAVES, and he had not told her. Oh, we I, such Infidelity does not seem to bother Tula. For they are being married tonight (Friday) here in...
Bump Suppers. So it went for six hectic days. Then, in an orgiastic climax, the victorious colleges staged bump suppers, an occasion for all-night revelry that always ended with the climbing of college roofs and a colossal bonfire. Elated crewmen were affectionately dragged in & out of rooms, up & down...
Signals and Scissors. Whistling, humming, singing and talking were forbidden. Once when the Bishop tried breaking the no-talking rule, as everyone did, he got "a good wigging from the head warden." Nevertheless he managed to send out word that he would say daily Morning and Evening Prayers, invited his...
Then, as he wrote in Amid These Storms (1932): ". . . The next step was to begin. But what a step to take! The palette gleamed with beads of color; fair and white rose the canvas; the empty brush hung poised, heavy with destiny, irresolute in the air. My hand seemed arrested...