Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cordiner, we've got a complaint, we've been damaged.' We intend to resist. It will be a neat problem to prove damages." Of course, he went on. "if we've unwittingly damaged any customer anywhere, we wish to make an adjustment." He cited a rash of suits that followed G.E.'s 1949 antitrust conviction for monopolizing electric bulbs. The suits, which totaled $104 million, were settled for $1,395,000. Just in case things go against G.E. Treasurer John D. Lockton told the meeting, the giant electric company...
...kind of literary snob to appreciate parody anyway, and although we are often told solemnly that parody must be funny in itself and not just because it mocks something, it is very satisfying to recognise a small and particular bit of cleverness. Of the contemporary rash of parodies Benchley's (again) are the most effective; they are gentle and charming as his stories. One of them has H. L. Mencken reviewing George Jean Nathan, and vice-versa. Mencken on Nathan...
Dismayed Ally. In 1958 there was a rash of 18 forgeries. One, an ingeniously planted U.S. diplomatic dispatch, purportedly came from Elim O'Shaughnessy, then chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Bonn. It counseled the backing of neofascist groups in West Germany that were known to be plumping for the return of Alsace-Lorraine to the fatherland. Though false, the "document" created real dismay at the Quai d'Orsai...
...Hell." Don Felt starts the day at full throttle ("mean as hell," says an ex-aide), and never slows down. Traffic flows in and out of his office to the tune of his shouts. For a change of pace he sometimes punches at a panel of buzzers (a rash of buzzing means coffee...
...winsome half-column photograph-brought an odd sort of celebrity: one longtime column correspondent moodily addressed his next letter to "Darling" instead of "Dear Mr. Porter." From the U.S. Senate floor, in 1942, Colorado's Edwin Johnson branded her "the biggest liar in the United States" after a rash of Porter attacks on his silver policy. As the only lady business columnist in harness, she was in steady vogue as a lecturer. "After all, our second choice," wrote the executive secretary of the Massachusetts Bankers Association to Sylvia's lecture agency, "would not have the allure...