Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three weeks of recess, this was a decision day. Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, impressive as always, leaned forward, nodded to Associate Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. Justice Rutledge read the Court's majority opinion-a routine case. The Chief Justice, his solid face impassive, swiftly read a brief dissent...
Most Americans were going to the lodges, resorts, hunting and fishing clubs in Quebec and Ontario. The resorts of Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper in the Rockies, closed during part of the war, would reopen June 15. They have already been booked solid. A select few tourists would confine themselves to the "million dollar" salmon fishing clubs along New Brunswick's Restigouche and Metapedia Rivers. Vancouver was assured a bumper crop of visitors for its July Diamond Jubilee to be highlighted by an $80,000 historical pageant...
Bess Truman had grown used to the lurking Secret Service men, the brass and braid and cutaways and gowns, the flashbulbs, limousines, interviews and stares. Benefits, teas, parties, receptions, christenings, and the daily quick changes from short skirts to long were now routine. She was booked solid through April, and looking forward...
Unlike the American League, which had almost no spring rookies to rave about, the National League was full of them. One even crept into the solid Cardinal lineup: Dick Sisler, (batting .443) son of the great George Sisler, pushed Ray Sanders (batting .192) off first base. After the Cardinals, the National League lineup looked like this...
Died. Amos Sulka, 84, haberdasher to solid citizens like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, fashioner of lush, loud ties for the carriage trade; in Manhattan...