Word: restless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This deal burst like a bomb on the sweltering, restless convention. The Reuther group bellowed: "Cheap politics." Dick Frankensteen's lame explanation that he did not want to "crucify" the North American local got more boos than cheers. President Roland Jay Thomas, as inept as a June bug, bumped his head against both sides. Many a cautious delegate believed that a Red purge might do U.A.W. more harm than good. But the Reuther group, angry at Frankensteen's flipflop, were out for blood...
This was a stunner to Claude Wickard. He knew what it was to walk all day behind a plow pulled by a restless team; to pick corn with cold fingers and an aching back, to spread manure by hand, to shock wheat all day under a hot sun. He knew that hogs could suddenly stop getting fat and die of cholera; that if they didn't die they could sell so cheaply there was no profit in the year's long work. He wanted to do something about that. He wanted to help make farm life better...
...much it liked the idea of a solid man as Chief Justice to follow Charles Evans Hughes. And solid is the word for Chief Justice Stone-200 lb., with heavy, good-natured features and a benign judicial air. On the bench, Frankfurter moves around and makes notes; Douglas looks restless and bored; Murphy stares pensively under his bushy eyebrows; Black smiles enigmatically to himself; but Mr. Justice Stone, leaning forward impassively, his grey hair falling over his forehead, is almost as impressive a figure of justice as were Taft and Hughes before...
...Zealander named Bernard Cyril Freyberg; he is now 51 and a major general. At 16 he had already made some New Zealand records as a swimmer. Before World War I he was a restless young dentist in San Francisco, called "Tiny" because he was so huge. The Mexican Revolution in 1914 lured him across the Rio Grande on Pancho Villa's side; but he heard of the war in Europe, walked 300 miles to the west coast, earned his way to Britain by winning a swimming meet in Los Angeles and later a boxing match in Harlem. He became...
...likes to curl up with a volume of Milton's poems when no one is looking. Some notable support is furnished the frowning, fighting actors by Newcomer Alexander Knox as the author stranded aboard the Ghost and by Barry Fitzgerald, as the ship's cook. For restless cinemaddicts whom only blood & thunder can quiet, The Sea Wolf should prove a strong sedative...