Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every President since Theodore Roosevelt has felt an urge to perform drastic surgery on the Government's multiplying bureaus. Each has asked Congress for a scalpel, in the form of a reorganization bill, but most of them got something that looked more like a rubber dagger. Congressmen always shuddered at the idea of a President whacking at patronage with anything that would really...
...assignment to write an industrial peace treaty, the conference was getting nowhere. Barring a miracle-by a group of men who had proved to be in no mood to perform one-it would soon fold up without offering the American public anything except its regrets...
Answers varied: he was in Moscow, tanned and rested; he was dead; he had suffered a disabling heart attack during his Caucasus vacation; he did not dare risk a cold by exposing himself suddenly to northern weather; he had deliberately stayed away in order to watch his subordinates perform. One rumor even said that Stalin had gone to meet President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Mistinguett, ancient (seventyish) Parisian music-hall favorite whose shapely legs have outlasted two World Wars, saw Marlene Dietrich perform in Paris, cooed to a lobby listener: "Marlene was marvelous, but, chérie, you know, she's really getting very...
Solid Citizens. Without Blanchard and Davis, West Point would have just another good wartime football team. Even with them, the old football fact remains that most games are won or lost by the solid citizens who perform up front...