Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President rose in cap & gown, grinned proudly, put an arm around his daughter and handed her the diploma. Mary Margaret seemed a little flustered. But she turned, smiled again and kissed his cheek before she walked offstage. Her father's grin broadened at the solid applause which followed her and he looked up happily at the presidential box where aunts, uncles and cousins were sitting with Bess Truman...
Outside the office of Secretary of State Byrnes, curious reporters made another try. Whimsically, Inverchapel explained that until he had presented his credentials to the President he was only "a ghost, an astral body." The solid ghost, with a red face and a big nose, then evaporated in the general direction of the solid and stately British Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue...
...Solid Havana businessmen who lunch in the highceilinged, masculine La Florida, sugar millers, newly capped Manuel Cardinal Arteaña and the Catholic Church were notably unhappy this week. Ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista, who had waited, vampirelike, in Florida for signs of Grau disintegration, sighed in disappointment...
Miss Ireland (Eleanor Graham) brought to Manhattan from the old country the solid advantages that had won her a monopoly of the title for six years, then trotted off to a little Pennsylvania town named Devon to visit her father. She would go back to Manhattan to model right away...
...Laughing Marxist. When the Communists entered the Government, some naive rightists assumed that power would mellow their driving determination. Thorez shows no sign of softening. His 5 ft. 10 in., 165-lb. body is solid and strong, his blue eyes clear. As vice president of France, he sits in the fussy luxury of the Hotel Matignon, which Austro-Hungarian ambassadors occupied before 1914. The Gobelin tapestries on the walls neither fit nor affect his revolutionary ardor. He doesn't even know the name of the Roman Emperor whose bust faces him. When Thorez laughs...