Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finally added up the bill for White House repairs: $5,400,000 to construct a fireproof, steel & concrete interior which would stand on its own foundations inside the existing exterior, like a self-contained house within a house. Talking it over with congressional committeemen, Harry Truman remembered how he had first noticed signs of trouble when "the big, fat butler brought me my breakfast one morning and the floor shook." What finally convinced him was the day the bathroom floor sagged perilously and he imagined himself plummeting through the floor, bathtub and all, during a reception in the Blue Room...
...town treasurer of Andover, Vt. (pop. 213), sat down last week to write a difficult letter to the nearby Rutland Daily Herald. "This letter is not to be construed as an effort to disperse blame," he began, "nor am I trying to be dramatic. The mood is that of self-condemnation, coupled with a profound disappointment in myself as a person and citizen...
Last week Hennenman was cleaner and safer than it had been for years, but Willem van Rensburg, the self-appointed health commissioner, was in a mental hospital for observation. Said one Hennenman shopkeeper: "Some say he's off his rocker, but I think he's all there. He did a fine job for the town...
...A.T.S. girl (Phyllis Calvert). His son (Philip Friend), missing in action for several years, turns up wounded, bitter and a virtual stranger to the father. Son turns for understanding-and eventually for love-to father's fiancee. Before father can marry the girl, everyone gets into such a self-sacrificial mood that son's postwar maladjustment dissipates itself in noble dialogue...
Harvard cannot claim sainthood in the matter of tolerance, but it is interesting to compare the recent Eisler episode--or rather the lack of an "episode"--with instances of egg-throwing and organized hectoring by self-appointed student vigilantes that have dogged "free institutions of learning" throughout the country. The College itself had a disagreeable taste of this last year in the case of the anti-draft meeting in Sanders Theater. That was something most undergraduates were sorry about. The orderly attention to Gerhart Eisler Monday night, on the other hand, was something to be a little proud...