Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardly a Senator who was not also thinking about some patronage jobs-a federal judgeship, a spot as U.S. attorney-or some legal claim in his own state. All such matters have to be approved by Pat McCarran's Judiciary Committee. And McCarran was also McKellar's right bower on the Appropriations Committee...
...opening show she managed to inject a few bars of her favorite song. I Got Rhythm, and gave the full Merman treatment to three others. She portrayed a fight announcer ("Tiger is fighting back! He throws a left - a right - another left. Now he's bringing a right uppercut from the floor - now they're bringing Tiger up from the floor."). She played every character in a "Pageant of American Womanhood" that included Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and a hilarious Joan of Arc, as well as such authentic native daughters as Barbara Frietchie, Ruby Foo and Miriam...
Gara scolded the police for arresting the student, wrote a letter of protest to the district attorney, presently found himself on trial for having "counseled, aided and abetted" another person in evading draft regulations. Though Gara claimed that he had merely upheld the student's right to follow his conscience, Toledo's District Court Judge Frank Le Blond Kloeb took an unsentimental view of the matter. Judge Kloeb instructed the jury to find Gara guilty if what he had said to the Bluffton student "had a tendency to encourage or cause [him] to continue his refusal to register...
Army & Navy service stores have been a money-saving blessing to righting men during wars. But they have often proved a money-losing headache for private businessmen in peacetime. After World War II ended, the post exchanges and ships' service stores kept right on selling so many items at less than retail prices that private merchants complained loudly enough for Congress 'to hear them. Military stores, they said, were peddling luxury goods, like fur coats and watches, tax free; groceries were being sold at wholesale prices in direct competition with local merchants, and large numbers of servicemen were...
...same two fingers to represent the horns of the devil, pointed them downward when they wanted to keep the devil in Hell, pointed them upward in the Churchillian manner when they wanted evil to triumph. Reminded of this fact by a distraught Cornish woman, undistraught Mr. Churchill went right ahead giving his sign...