Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Winchell: Hard to tell just what's biting this middle-aged ex-chorus boy. False shame of his race . . . may be at the root of it all. Anyhow ... he suffers from a chronic state of wild excitement, venom and perpetual motion...
...spent his afternoons tapping his pipelines. The best of these were longtime friends in the British Embassy. He gathered his news in personal interviews, not at cocktail parties. Pertinax stuck to his lifelong rule against purely speculative stories, which he feels U.S. columnists overdo. His motto: get to the root of the facts and the conclusion should become self-evident...
Postmaster General Robert Hanne-gan surprised Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly by assimilating a heroic-sized "Black Cow" -six scoops of ice cream in three bottles of root beer. A pop-eyed Chicago Daily News editorialist pointed a moral: "This is an age of power, size and grandeur...
...ideal is a system which shall be as fair to the fast as to the slow, the hand-minded as to the book-minded, but which, while meeting the separate needs of each, shall yet foster that follow feeling between human being and human being which is the deepest root of democracy...
When it finally dawned on them that D.D.T. was the root of the trouble,* the worried patient relaxed and was able to go to work. Unlike the doomed fly, his health gradually returned. But even now, a year later, he is still not willing to admit that he is in the pink...