Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost the biggest news around the White House was the arrival of a pair of elegant black silk garters presented to the President by an anonymous admirer, and monogrammed "HST" on the solid gold clasps. Cost...
...Keynote. Yet an air of solid habit had begun to pervade U.N.'s halls. Faces grew familiar. Delegates had learned their way to conference rooms, bars and washrooms. Recently, when an ultra-orthodox Moslem member of the Egyptian delegation spread his prayer rug just off the press bar, nobody paid any attention (except a helpful British journalist who told the Moslem which way was east...
Also on the speaker's platform sat about 50 of Oxfordshire's leading Tories-solid, well-fixed businessmen, country gentlemen and their ladies. Fifty or so of the lesser elect were allowed to sit on two rows of steps around the portico. Facing the platform, on the cricket green, was a roped enclosure with some 200 chairs. There sat the remainder of the party committeemen, their families, and others of the locally privileged...
Candid Mike already looks like a solid hit. Last week 800 enthusiastic listeners wrote in-including some sociologists, scientists, radio technicians-"the most literate fan mail" Funt has ever seen. The dissenting minority, if there was any, could take its cue from the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle, which said: "With this new Machiavellian inspiration, radio crosses the last threshold of privacy. . . . The whole country seems likely to be plagued with hidden microphones...
...hitting this year is due partly to being an everyday player, partly to some advice about his batting stance from brother Dixie (when they meet around the circuit, they usually discuss their Alabama hardware business). One of Harry's neatest tricks this year has been hitting a solid .438 in four games against Cincinnati's sensational, 16-straight Pitcher Ewell Blackwell. Says Harry: "I guess I've just been lucky...