Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a soldier's knack for getting right to the bottom of things, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery thought he knew how to find out if his World War II commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, will run for the U.S. presidency in 1952. Arriving in Manhattan for conferences, Monty said: "I shall ask Ike if he is going to run when I see him next week...
...Moscow, speaking before a convention of the International Democratic Women's Federation, U.S. Delegate Mrs. Muriel Draper assured her hearers that U.S. bosses are firing workers who are married women. Said she solemnly: in the U.S. "it is a crime to work if you love...
Veteran Movie Director Cecil B. DeMille, hailed as the film "pioneer of the year" at the tenth anniversary dinner in Manhattan of the Motion Picture Pioneers, told a tall tale of some painstaking work on his forthcoming Samson and Delilah. For ten years, he said, he followed molting peacocks around his 10,000-acre California ranch, collecting the 1,900 feathers which embellish one of the costumes worn in the film by Delilah (Hedy Lamorr...
...here this afternoon or I will." While he damned all the hullabaloo as an unreasonable invasion of his privacy, the newsmen thought the mayor's coy conduct a bit unreasonable also; his secret departure had been a sure way to bring the press tallyhoing after him. Said one reporter sourly: "We don't like this business any more than you do. I'd like to get out of here and take in a football game." At that, O'Dwyer tried futilely to get a plane to take him away...
...next thing reporters knew, the mayor popped up at his office at City Hall alone and met another horde of newsmen. One of them tossed a copy of the New York World-Telegram on his desk and pointed to a story of a baker who said he was delivering a wedding cake to the mayor this week. Any comment? Snapped the mayor: "Take that paper off my desk." The "merciless intrusion" of the press, he moaned, "could do a lot toward breaking up my friendship with Miss Simpson...