Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love, as has many another strong Speaker before him. Polk was the only Speaker who advanced to the Presidency, but Clay, Elaine, Reed, Champ Clark, Jack Garner and others had Presidential or Vice Presidential ambitions. It so happens that by 1944 the South's Sam Rayburn, a solid, middle-of-the-roader, a man who can placate Congress, may be just the kind of running mate Franklin Roosevelt desires. In that case, Term IV may be Sam's first -in a different...
...mail delivery; only a yawning fireplace, walnut beds, and electric stove for steak broiling and an old-fashioned icebox, usually filled with watermelons. Here, on the hot summer afternoons, Sam Rayburn lolls around, often in his shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence-posts hewed out of bois d'arc (pronounced, in Texas, bo-dark), or sits popping huge chunks of red watermelon into his mouth from the end of a rancher's stiletto, or plays a little dominoes with his brothers. (They usually win.) At night...
From dawn to dusk each day this month good Moslems may not eat, drink, smoke, use perfume, apply leeches, indulge in sex. It is the month of Ramadan, holiest in Islam's year, and conscientious observance of its requirements can atone for a solid year of sinning...
Timid Monopoly. Minister of Information Brendan Bracken remarked on this depressing shade recently in the House of Commons, invited "a complete examination of the whole setup of the BBC" before renewing its charter. Commons adjourned without committing itself, but the solid, thoughtful Economist snapped up Bracken's invitation. Said the Economist...
...four writers, four cartoonists, who work one day a week, are highly paid), Délano was busy with a motion picture and had no time for publishing. He might have skipped an issue. Instead he whipped off a cartoon for the cover, printed half the inside pages solid black, left half blank, at the bottom of each printed the caption: "Hold up to the sunlight for five minutes and you will see figures of political significance." Half of Topaze's readers that week claimed to see something. The rest held Topaze to the sun until their arms ached...