Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Random Harvest. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., F. M. Griswold stepped out into his frontyard, just missed falling into a ditch from which thieves had, overnight, uprooted his seven-year-old hedge...
...almost overnight he became a national disgrace. He had always been a voracious Casanova; for his wife's one sin he had committed scores. Now he calmly restored her to his household. "I am not aware of any statute or code of morals," he wrote in an icy "open letter" to the howling public, "which makes it infamous to forgive a woman." Few knew that, when alone, Daniel and Teresa had nothing to do with each other. But everyone agreed that "The Washington Tragedy" had ended the brilliant Congressman's career...
Joseph Clark Baldwin, dapper socialite New York Congressman, made a straight-faced proposal that U.S. film actors be "lend-leased" to Europe to re-educate the enemy: "Overnight they would be able to do more good in inspiring confidence in the Nazi and Fascist-trained youth of Europe than all of the unknown professional educators we are now contemplating sending abroad...
...B.O.A.C. would temporarily be out in front of its U.S. rivals. The Shetlands, slightly smaller but faster than the Martin "Mars," would be the most de luxe planes ever to cross the Atlantic. Each will carry 70 passengers, will have a cozy cocktail lounge and comfortable berths for the overnight hop to London...
...pressure pain from the stomach. The theory is the same as lifting the lid of a spouting tea kettle to release steam. After Western laxatives had failed to relieve a certain Cabinet member, Dr. Chang prescribed a herb to "heat the vapor of the spleen." The statesman was cured overnight...