Word: restedness
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Franklin Roosevelt, in his role as Commander in Chief, gazed through the dull drizzle at the tanks and bulldozers, the jeeps and howitzers ready for loading on merchant ships, took the cheers of 40,000 workers, then moved on to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the super-battleships Missouri and...
Plagued by anxious wives and uniformed husbands, the Secretary of State for War, Sir James Grigg, told the House of Commons that it had been a mistake ever to let the committee's work become public knowledge. There the matter uneasily rested.
Bearded, blue-eyed Aristide Maillol (pronounced Ma-yoll) had reached the great age of 82. For a generation and more he had held an artistic eminence taken over from his friend and early supporter, the late, great Auguste Rodin. Maillol's serene, monumentally detached sculpture was the antithesis of...
Ernie Pyle announced that he was coming home from the battlefields of France. Said he: "I've been 29 months overseas . . . nearly a year in the front lines. . . . My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. . . . All of a sudden it seemed to me that if I heard...
Franklin Roosevelt was coatless; his thinning grey hair was neatly combed. Though his face still had the thin and careworn look it has worn for months, he was lightly tanned, and looked rested and fit. This answered Question No. 1: how does he look? And immediately they got an answer...