Word: onwardness
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...poorer Randy Phillips who spurred his subway car ever onward Saturday last. The "Dolph", once of Hollywood, has made a standing date at one of Beantown's favorite nightspots--the Touraine Bar. How naive must have been the faces of Bill "The Bradford" Shirey, Don "Raymore Playmore" Royce and Rod "Scollay Square" Rolain as this threesome was asked to desert their regular haunts for a well-spent Saturday in Wellesley...
...Irresistibly Onward." The question that might split the congress or make it a new mighty factor in world affairs still lay ahead: whether to take Russia and the C.I.O. into the existing International Federation of Trade Unions, or to create a new world labor international. Britain favors the first, Russia and the C.I.O., the second...
Perhaps, in the auspicious atmosphere of Russia's new political prestige, Lenin's words to the Profintern's first world congress were again remembered in Moscow: "The conversion of trade-union members to the ideas of Communism is moving irresistibly onward everywhere . . . moving irregularly, incorrectly, unsteadily, overcoming thousands of obstacles, but . . . still moving irresistibly onward...
...important evenings of her life was the one, at a Georgetown prom, when she saw the reigning model of the day make a conquest of the floor. She decided immediately, she remembers, that if that was how it was done, she would do it. That decision led her swiftly onward & upward to New York and a job as a Powers model. Arrived with Powers, she was at the model's zenith and might have stayed there indefinitely. But nature had other plans for her, and other ways of carrying them...
...Onward Destiny. Together with Argentina's Government, Colonel Perón inherited Argentina's feud with the U.S. State Department. President Castillo had been a great Yankee-hater. Relations grew worse when Castillo was overthrown. Some of the new Spiritual Renovators looked not merely anti-U.S., but pro-Axis. U.S. newspapers began to cry that they were setting up a full-fledged Fascist state in the Western Hemisphere...