Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protocol was no more depressing than the furnishings. The meeting room itself with its round table was not so bad, but the twin angels on the backs of each of the Big Three's gilt chairs were hard to bear. So was the décor of Truman's living quarters. Items: liver-colored wallpaper in the living room; still lifes in the dining room-a very dead rabbit, a half cantaloupe and a very red lobster...
Dark-skinned, raven-haired Berlin's main job was to compile weekly reports on the U.S. scene, which he accumulated in part in an interminable round of dinners and cocktail parties. Hostesses and guests were charmed by his Oxford-accented observations on the world and its great; Reporter Berlin was charmed with what he learned. His sparkling accounts became "must" reading for policy-making Britons. Winston Churchill once entertained Composer Irving Berlin at lunch without learning that he was not the "I. Berlin" who signed those fascinating reports from Washington...
...Manhattan's favorite tabloid characters got married last week. The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 36, wing-collared pastor of Harlem's big Abyssinian Baptist Church and New York's first Negro Congressman, took as a wife (his second) round-eyed, plump Hazel Scott, 25, Bach-to-boogie pianist. Their wedding should have been a tabloid editor's dream - a cast of stars, and a comedy of errors...
...bridegroom doggedly lasted out a double-row, round-the-block reception line, pumping the hands of the men and kissing the women on the cheek. The bride had to retire with a dizzy spell...
...paralleled a service long operated by Pan Am's Mexican subsidiary, Compañia Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A., which protested loudly against the operating permit granted to Braniff by the Minister of Communications. When protests failed, C.M.A. resorted to deeds. The resulting intercompany battle that marked the first round-trip Braniff flight from Mexico City to Merida was in the best swashbuckling tradition of business below the border...