Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he is asked to describe his Government career, 55-year-old Assistant ECAdministrator Wayne Chatfield Taylor gives a rueful one-word reply: "Bruises." A New Deal stalwart for 17 years, ex-Investment Banker Taylor picked up many a bump as Assistant AAAdministrator, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of Commerce (he directed the famous wartime eviction of Sewell Avery from Montgomery Ward), and president of the Export-Import Bank...
...moment. It refurbishes old situations with such new gadgets as Geiger counters; it endows standard roles with new wrinkles. The Russian spy (suavely played by John Wengraf) is a cynical worldling whose motive is money, not Marx; the chief intelligence officer (winningly played by Lee Tracy) is a humorously rueful fellow who has a horror of muffing his assignment...
...Reimann's henchmen were fined $150 and $90 for holding a political meeting without a permit. When the day's hearings were over, Reimann was carried off in triumph by Reds who sang the Internationale and shouted: "Down with the Ruhr statute-down, down, down!" A rueful Briton admitted: "It looks as if the trial is backfiring...
Hands Across the Ages. In New Delhi, people gave Lord Mountbatten an endless and slightly rueful round of farewell parties. Preparing to take his place was Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (conveniently known as "C.R."), one of the Congress Party's austere leaders (he neither smokes, drinks nor goes to the movies). If the Dominion of India decides to break away from the British Commonwealth, C.R. will be its last Governor General. Said he last week: "I shall have to shake hands with Warren Hastings* across the ages, saying, 'You were the first and I am the last in your noble...
...year contract (to prevent him from going to CBS), promised to turn over anything extra that another sponsor might want to pay. The new paycheck, even without his newspaper earnings, puts Winchell near the top of the Treasury's list of U.S. wage earners. But Winchell was rueful: "I don't give a damn about the money. I won't get any of it, anyhow. I'd have stayed if they had just shoved that commercial over to Parsons...