Word: roomfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around 9:30 one night last week, an old gentleman in evening clothes opened the door of a Manhattan hotel ballroom and started to make his way inside. At once, the 1,500 banqueters rose from their tables, and the room rocked with applause. Educator-Philosopher John Dewey nodded his white head, smiled behind his scraggly mustache as scholars and eminent professors clapped until their hands ached. Then everyone joined in a chorus of "Happy birthday...
...Glisson's first spill since four horses piled up in the stretch at Belmont Park last June. That day, with one jockey hurt and two others stunned, he walked calmly back to the jockeys' room where an excited doctor exclaimed: "That was a pretty bad spill." Glisson, dirty and dusty, stared at the doc with cold, blue eyes and said matter-of-factly: "I've seen worse." At 18, he has the kind of unshakable coolness that makes him a standout among the hard-boiled little men he rides against...
...combination living & dining room, glittering with thousands of flecks of gold-colored plastic thread woven in chairs, sofa and carpet, the huge mirror forming the far wall parted; through it, from her hidden boudoir, stepped Viola Loewy, his 28-year-old bride of less than a year, to join him at breakfast...
...Force because I was the most competent airman in the Pacific and that, if that statement was not true, I recommended that he find somebody that was more competent. . . When Sutherland seemed to be getting a little antagonistic, I said, 'Let's go in the next room, see General MacArthur . . .' Sutherland immediately calmed down and rescinded the orders that I had objected...
Spurred by righteous clubwomen, the town marshal took Janie away from her foster parents and brought her to the generous Smiths, who let her share Lillian's room, clothes and toys. But one day, after a phone call from an orphanage, Lillian was told Janie would have to leave...