Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large the food was good all along our route, the hotels had plenty of clean towels and hot water (we supplied our own soap), and occasional nursemaids were available for the children, who can stand just so much sightseeing and no more. Our only fiscal misadventure occurred in Paris, where I had to pay the hotel bill in a hurry to make the airport. It seemed rather steep, and I found later that they had inadvertently thrown in all the previous day's laundry bills for other tenants of the small hotel. The matter has since been adjusted...
...Albert Lea, Minn., he put in a word for Senator Joe Ball, who deserted him in 1944 to support Roosevelt and who is now fighting for his political life against Minneapolis' bouncing Mayor Hubert Humphrey. Ball, smiling bleakly, was allowed to stand on the rear platform with the candidate. A tomato hurled by another hoodlum grazed Ball's shoulder...
Biggest Ever. The old gibes were sharpened up. The Republicans, said Truman, "stand four-square for the American home-but not for housing. They believe in international trade-so much so that they crippled our reciprocal trade program. They say that TVA is wonderful-but we ought never to try it again." His audience, filling St. Paul's auditorium 15,000 strong, with another 6,000 outside, cheered, whistled, and applauded...
Ingrid Bergman, whose eleven years of marriage (to a surgeon) stand as an example to Hollywood, made a little visit to Sweden-her first trip home in nine years. Romping about with husband Peter Lindstrom, she was caught in a snapshot (see cut) that would make a fine travel poster-or even a yeast...
...uncovered what the board of school superintendents had not announced. The board had voted not to renew its 18 Nation subscriptions, on the ground that the weekly (circ. 42,000) had printed articles by Paul Blanshard, onetime New York City commissioner of accounts, criticizing the Catholic Church's stand on fascism, science and censorship of books and movies. The offending copies were yanked out of the school libraries...