Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voter, taxpayer and lifelong resident of Washington state. I voted for assistance to the aged and blind people in this state. I did not do so "with something of the attitude of a nightclub sot," as you say. I am not a recipient of old-age assistance. You are a damn liar...
...look out over the baseball field (over the catcher's head), right field is to my right. So, it seems to me, Stan Musial squares off on the right side of the plate, not the left as you say...
...request of a Czechoslovakian Foreign Office official, the portrait of Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary (TIME, Feb. 14) was withdrawn. Its presence there, said the official, was "an unfriendly gesture to Czechoslovakia." This week U. S. Press Attache Joseph Kolarek had more to say about the gesture...
...peril point for years in the future? It was also an open invitation to every industry to bring terrific political pressures to bear on its behalf. "With the peril-point amendment," argued Majority Leader Scott Lucas, "we abandon our position as the economic leader in world affairs . . . We cannot say to the rest of the world: 'From now on the primary factor in our tariff system is protection to domestic industry' and escape the retaliation which will follow . . . We shall move backward instead of forward...
...that drew a short answer from Pirate General Manager H. Roy Hamey: "You keep Newcombe; I'll keep my million." Later, before the 1949 season opened, Rickey solemnly announced that Newcombe was for sale: "The price, gentlemen, is a half-million dollars, and when I say a half million I don't mean...