Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Manager Perry Cookingham. The first time the city manager went to see Roberts, the fat man told him: "All we want is the best government you can give us. If we think you're wrong, we'll tell you-on Page One." The last time Cookingham saw Roberts was to tell him that another city had offered him a similar job at higher pay. The quick result: a boost from $18,000 to $25,000 for Manager Cookingham...
Crowds thronged to see a film on the Pope's anti-war activities. Many were attracted by the title: War Against War. Other crowds saw Garbo's Ninotchka, newly released in Italy; it gave them a chance to laugh, briefly, at Communism. In Naples, the minstrels were singing...
...early popularity did not fool Nash; he was plagued by a sense of his own inadequacy as well as by ill health. Leaning on his silver-headed cane, he explored the English countryside, gradually learned to search out the geometry existing in what he saw, and to base his designs on that...
...Roper did it) showed Wallace to have 15,000,000 votes. . . . From Mr. Winchell's Broadway column, the rumor fell back again into the Communist press . . . where it was reported that it was reliably reported that Roper had done the poll on Wallace for Luce, and when Luce saw the results he told Roper to go back and do another poll. And the second poll, according to the Daily Worker, showed Wallace to have over 11,000,000 votes. (An example of admirable restraint -for the Daily Worker to put the strength of the candidate they support at less...
Stubborn old L.B., who is accustomed to getting his own way, never quite accepted the fact that Irene, his second daughter, was not a son. But L.B. saw that she had lessons in piano, violin and cooking - as well as in golf, tennis and swimming. He routed her out of bed early every morning for an hour's horseback ride before breakfast. Even now he sometimes says to her sadly: "Just think, if you had only been a boy. Aaaah...