Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dinner at the Palmer House -attended by 40 Chicago bigwigs, including the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick-the President spoke with unassuming trumanity: "In earlier years I came to Chicago on shopping trips with Mrs. Truman," he said. "I enjoyed looking in the windows. No one paid any attention to me then. I suppose a lot of people wish I was looking in windows again. But they won't get their way because a year from today I'm going to be right back in the same trouble...
...damned public was not so easily ignored; through the years it had whittled the Lords' powers until the House had become little more than a debating society filled with crotchety, beef-pink, ultraconservative old men. Nobody but the Lords themselves paid much attention to the House of Lords-and that could sometimes lead to error, as Britain's Labor government found out last week. In fact, the error blew into a tempest in which the government, to its acute embarrassment, got a severe tossing...
...girl paid to talk (and listen) to lonely bar customers, keep them buying drinks...
...book is composed chiefly of worrywarts' case histories. Samples: ¶ Mr. H. J. Englert of Tell City, Ind. got scarlet fever, then nephritis ("a kidney disease"), ran his blood pressure up to 214. Doctors advised him to make sure that his "insurance was all paid up" and then to get dressed for his funeral. After a week's "wallowing in self-pity," Mr. Englert "threw back [his] shoulders, put a smile on." Today, he is not only alive and happy, but his "blood pressure is down...
...Earl P. Haney of Winchester, Mass. was forced (by ulcers) "to give up a fine and highly paid position" and expect "a lingering death." He made what Author Carnegie calls a "rare and superb decision"; he set off on a round-the-world jaunt, taking his coffin with him. The undertaker has now bought back the coffin, and Mr. Haney, who stopped worrying en route, has "gained 90 pounds...