Word: personality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, who early in the campaign had contributed money to Henry Wallace's Progressives, hustled over to G.O.P. Manhattan headquarters to offer his support to Dewey in person, missed him, then caught up with the candidate in Grand Central Station. "Hello, stranger," cried Dewey, thrusting out his hand. "I wish you luck," said Joe, with careful regard for the candidate's bursitis...
...couple of months ago, Gus read in the official Gazette about the postmasters' 44th annual convention in New York. Gus wrote to New York's Postmaster Albert Goldman, asking him to reserve him "one single room and bed for one person." Gus added: "I will let you choose my hotel, for I must be in company with other postmasters so that I may not get lost. I have never been in a large city...
...prominence, and the emotion of the town at the thought of a genuine miracle occurring in its midst, are artfully handled. Once the miracle has happened, Maugham's imagination appears to have failed him; false notes become a little too frequent, and the introduction of Don Quixote in person is a little too much...
...single character which links these sequences together is called "Joe." He is presented as an unemployed veteran who finds that he can look into a person's eyes and tell what that person dreams about or wants to dream about. So Joe puts a shingle up on his door saying "Dreams That Money Can Buy," and soon his waiting room is swarming with people, each wanting to buy or sell a dream. As Joe looks into a customer's eyes his technicolored dream is shown on the screen. They are like nothing you've ever seen, unless--but then that...
Once Fix turned to the group, referring to a kind of compressed cereal, said, "Gentlemen, you have six doughboys. You may do with them what you wish." That day each person had one doughboy and a cup of tea for food...