Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unmarried gentleman wants acquaintance with nice young lady who can say yes to life. Purpose: enrichment of weekends in romantically situated weekend house...
...talked politics, professing his Republicanism but plumping for such radical measures as workmen's compensation. Long and vehemently Father argued: "You know that 40 people in the drop-forge plant are going to lose their hands or smash their fingers before the end of the year. I say that it's just nonsense to say that workmen's negligence has anything to do with...
...From an early age," says the Secretary of State, "this made me impatient with people who said this step is leading to socialism and the next step will be Communism and the next step will be antiChrist. To my mind the point is, how do you deal with this problem? They say if you do this or that you will end up in socialism. Nuts...
That fall he went to Yale, where he rowed No. 7 on the frosh crew. Says Acheson, archly: "Those who row No. 7 say it is the most important place." He never put on enough weight to row on the varsity, but another old Groton boy and Yale oarsman, Averell Harriman, admiringly remembers the Dean of those days. Says Harriman, with the air of a man making a lasting character judgment: "He was a good...
Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones last week refused to say how the meeting had gone. But West Indian union leaders voiced the feeling of the natives. "Violence will break out among our people," said one, "if he does not return. Lord Baldwin is a sympathetic governor...