Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...providing for a title with American precedent: General of the Armies. If the bills are passed, he and General "Hap" Arnold will get the new rank now held only by John J. Pershing, and held in the past only by three other U.S. fighting men: Grant, Sherman and Sheridan...
...calculation and his fickle flock deserted him. A group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...
...taken Texas' Long Tom Connally 29 weeks to phrase his 176-word Senate Resolution for international cooperation. For ten days, insisting it should be stronger, the B2H2 Senators had hammered at it.* Then came the Moscow agreement. Both Illinois' Scott Lucas and California's Sheridan Downey had the happy thought: Why not add the words of the pact to the Connally Resolution? Tom Connally was won over; so were the B2H2 supporters. The deadlock was broken...
...office with a door marked in gold letters. "General of the Armies." A beribboned colonel sits inside the door. General Pershing's own room is beyond. The room is blue-carpeted; on its walls hang four portraits of America's dead and buried Generals: Washington, Grant, Sherman. Sheridan. There is a fireplace, but there is no fire in it. There is a large desk but no one sits there. The long mirror hanging over the cold fireplace reflects no living presence. The office of the General of the Armies is empty...
Thank Your Lucky Stars (Eddie Cantor, Bette Davis, Dinah Shore, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, some 39 other stars and starlets of the Warner galactic system; TIME...