Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then, Ed had been in state politics for more than 40 years. He had been born, properly, in a log cabin and, at twelve, helped round up votes for Greene County Democrats. This was a mistake he soon corrected. When Grover Cleveland and the Democrats took the high tariff off imported wools and ruined Ed's sheep-raising father, Ed reformed and joined the Republicans. In 1898 he marched off to fight the Spanish in the Philippines. He came back and graduated from Waynesburg College...
...Verdun is still as crusty as ever. In rugged health he spends his days pondering in justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole which the Marshal is convinced is a peephole. Last month Pétain's jailer added a wicker lounge chair to the meager furnishings, but the prisoner refuses to sit in it. "It's furniture for old people," he snorts...
...labor plans to strike for another round of wage increases, "it s certainly our duty to make it crystal clear to the American public, including the workers themselves, just what they are heading into. They are heading for depression and unemployment just as certainly and logically as night follows...
...Algonquin became a Manhattan institution, and gave birth to other institutions. Most famed offspring: the Round Table, "a crowd of unusually agreeable folk": Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, "F.P.A.", Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Heywood Broun. In the twenties, they lunched together in the Oak Room. But when they died or drifted away, there were always younger wits to dine in the Oak Room and younger actors to sleep where John Barrymore had slept. Despite occasional rough going, the Algonquin usually earned a profit (last year...
...round up teaching talent, Military Government officers had gone on a two-month raid of the U.S. To many a teacher-starved U.S. board of education, the Government's campaign looked like poaching. For the 120 jobs in Germany, there were over 1,000 applications. Chief lure: an average salary of $4,500 (the same teachers would average $3,000 apiece in U.S. schools). In Germany, room & board will cost about $37.50 a month, and the Army does the teachers' apartment hunting. Other attractions: the trip abroad; the chance to get away from the routine of small-town...