Word: smith
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Antique Grandeur. Judge Waring was one of Charleston's own. He was born of an old and honored family; he married a Charleston girl. He was appointed to the bench January 1942 on the recommendation of the late Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith. Until he was 65, he abided by the insular mores of Charleston's first families and devoted himself to the dusty grandeur of Charleston's traditions...
From the moment when U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith and Britain's Frank Roberts arrived in Moscow, mum was the word. It was even mummer after Reuters' Dallas and the Herald Tribune's Newman cabled a beat: STALIN EXPECTED RECEIVE ENVOYS TOMORROW NIGHT. Furious at the leak, the envoys swore embassy staffs, down to typists and cipher clerks, to secrecy...
...Correspondents got no briefings before the Kremlin visits, and no comment afterwards. They haunted the embassy entrances, set out in hot pursuit whenever a bigwig drove away, trailed the envoys to every lunch and dinner date. Arriving at the British embassy after one tiring encounter with Molotov, Ambassador Smith, usually an even-tempered man, snapped irritably: "You just sit here. I'll tell you everything." Then he told the newsmen nothing...
When U.S. Ambassador Bedell Smith left the Kremlin one night last week, he said to newsmen: "Molotov, three hours. No Stalin. No comment." The reporters then turned to Frank Roberts of Britain. "You heard him, didn't you?" said Roberts. "No comment." Yves Chatigneau of France smiled, said nothing...
...poison-penned Ilya Ehrenburg, had toured the land of cotton in search of sensation. But Sprigle had "crossed over" to see it through the Negro's eyes. Last week, in his own paper and 13 others (none of them south of what he had learned to call the "Smith & Wesson" line), Sprigle began telling what he saw "In the Land of Jim Crow." As an account of man's inhumanity to man-and man's capacity for enduring it-his series made Gentleman's Agreement seem gentlemanly indeed...