Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slipping off to Hartford, he appeared at a press conference with Democratic Governor Chester Bowles at his side. Some time before the end of the year, they announced, Baldwin would resign from the Senate to take a $12,000-a-year vacancy on the state's Supreme Court of Errors. Though the appointment was nominally for only eight years, it was traditionally a lifetime job, and 55-year-old Raymond Baldwin would be in line for the post of chief justice in four years...
...Republicans were not appeased. Cried New Hampshire's angry Styles Bridges: "Everyone on the Republican side this morning was either sick to his stomach or mad as hell. It is impossible for me to understand how any Republican Senator would resign his position of responsibility and trust when it meant turning the post over to a Democrat.* It doesn't smell good to me." But to the Democrats, and especially to Chester Bowles, it smelled fine...
...ancient Japanese custom of marriage arranged by parents. They may smoke if they like. Emancipation has not been confined to the young. A middle aged matron in a Fukuoka leather-goods store explained: "Before the war when my husband and I went out I walked behind. Now we walk side by side...
People who have seen him in action call him the greatest one-man show this side of Winston Churchill. He has Churchill's sense of being on intimate terms with history. He also has his sense of danger and drama. He wraps himself in thundering generalities; he sometimes sounds, annoyingly, as though he had just received a special briefing from heavenly quarters. But few people come away without the conviction that he is a great...
Noises in the Corner. During the tests, Medium Harley was beside herself with excitement. In a corner her "contact" with the other side raised a hubbub in the loudspeaker through which Miss Harley got her spirit messages. The contact, however, spoke in Arabic, so little definite was learned. But Medium Harley said with a true spiritualist's authority, "whoever owned that jacket was strangled from behind and then drowned." With equal authority, Actress Hird commanded "that jacket is never to enter the theater again." The jacket stayed with Medium Harley, who hoped eventually to exorcise the evil spirit which...