Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first stagy gesture came almost as soon as she was seated-she tugged at her attorney's sleeve and whispered importantly, her head held to one side with a stiff and stilted coquettishness. Watching her, many a spectator felt that her affected posturing explained the things that had happened to Mildred Gillars almost as well as the testimony...
...Shanghai, doing odd jobs and organizing workers and students. In Peking he worked as a librarian and for the first time he sensed himself a proletarian. "I stayed in . . . a little room which held seven other peopie," he said. "I used to have to warn people on each side of me when I wanted to turn over . . ." He read the Communist Manifesto...
...result, ECA nations will be able to save sizable sums which commercial banks had been collecting as service fees and interest charges. On the banking side, the big losers will be New York's Chase National Bank, Bankers Trust Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc., which have handled $439 million of the funds...
...favorite trick (and later, Holmes's) to guess who and what any patient was without being told. "This man," he would declare, "is a left-handed cobbler . . . You'll obsairve, gentlemen, the worn places on the corduroy breeks where a cobbler rests his lapstone? The right-hand side, you'll note, is farr more worn than the left...
This would be gay company, though Campion and Herrick might find her verses-subtle and passionate though they are-a little too thoroughly on the sad side for their taste...