Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the military appropriation bill came up last week, Arkansas' dark and taciturn John McClellan proposed a rider directing the President to cut all money measures by at least 5%, and a maximum of 10%. Amidst bellows from Administration leaders that this was a "sham and pretense," to say nothing of an inglorious surrender of Congress' control of the national purse, McClellan's resolution went down...
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the hair of both twins had been styled and set by a professional hairdresser, after one had given herself a home wave. Chicago's Toni Co., maker of home permanent wave kits, will restyle its advertising to say...
Eliot's main problem: "To get a form of verse that would not falsify contemporary speech." Why not write it in prose? Explained Eliot: "There are lots of things you can't say in prose. I can write verse better than prose. When it is colloquially spoken, the very rhythm gets under people's skins and has a kind of atmospheric effect . . . The effect of first-rate verse should be to make us believe that there are moments in life when poetry is the natural form of expression of ordinary men and women...
...knowing as Cap'n Bryant's to find wistful hints of glories past,* when she was the biggest, flossiest playhouse afloat. Those were the magnolia-scented days when the showboats moved as regularly as the spring floods and, according to legend, a Bayou mother could say of her child, "He'll be foah, come next floatin' showhouse." Today, twelve years after the Goldenrod became a virtual landlubber at her St. Louis mooring, Cap'n Menke, 70, talks (as he does each year) of getting up steam again. "With her new hull," he says stoutly...
...Menke to swallow-is in the customers, now mostly heckling wiseacres from the big city. "When the folks come in from the little towns where we used to play our shows straight, from Golconda and Shawneetown and Chester, they look at me with a sad expression," he says. "Our shows've been spoiled, they say; the old days are dead." Then, toughening up, he adds: "Of course, we don't care what they come for, just as long as they lay their money down at the box office...