Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always appreciated the interesting liberties with nature [which] TIME has introduced into American cartography, let me say that your portrayal of Scotland
...Eisenhower could state a fact or a situation in a sentence, but Feldkamp, in order to pictorialize it, had to know what was going on all over the battlefield-and elsewhere-at the same time. His reading included authentic War Department reports of battle actions, etc., and was, to say the least, extensive...
...picture of an Oklahoma childhood liberally sprinkled with scenes of little Perle in colored hair ribbons matching the sash around her waist. The little girl lived in a big, red brick mansion with stables out back, where each child had its own Shetland pony. Perle likes to say that she organized her first party on her twelfth birthday...
This isn't quite the way some of her Oklahoma City friends recall it. Pearl, as they unfeelingly refer to her, did not come to Oklahoma until 1906, they say, when she was a full-blown, dark-haired woman of 25. Her father, William B. Skirvin, was a farm-implement salesman, a brash, stubby little cockerel of a man, who left Sturgis, Mich, and headed for the thriving Southwest. Like many another boomer, he set up in real estate in Galveston, Tex., then made a killing around Alta Loma, 18 miles north. Oldtimers are still bitter about that. Wrote...
...governor's difficulties is that he cannot help conducting himself as if he were governing Michigan. He had this to say about denazification: "There's a lot of talk about whether Nazis who've been in camps should be able to run for office. I don't know-but prison records aren't always bad politically. I knew in the Polish section in Detroit, if you've been to jail a couple of times, it helps a lot if you're running for office! And, for that matter, look at Curley." The governor...