Word: standing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Springs, Colo, to walk a steel cable which a resort owner, Frank Fowler, had strung across South Boulder Canyon. The cable was 635 ft. long and 582 ft. above a foaming torrent. As fourteen thousand watched, the professor walked the dizzy wire with ease, pausing in mid-passage to stand on his head...
Where the People Stand (Sun. 2:45 p.m., CBS). Elmo Roper reports why Wallaceites favor Wallace...
Grinning, clownish Glen Taylor mounted the stand for his acceptance speech to assail the Marshall Plan, assail racism, assail Wall Street and U.S. military leaders. When he finished, his wife, his three small sons and his brother Paul joined him on the stand; like a well rehearsed vaudeville act, they all sang When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The applause swelled, then seemed to roll right out of the park and up to a wan and waning moon as Henry Wallace appeared, riding in an open car, circling the outfield...
...world. Never once did he criticize Russia. He suggested that the U.S. pull out of Berlin. "We can't lose anything by giving it up militarily in a search for peace." The trademark of Marcantonio & friends was stamped on every page of the text. Said Wallace: "We stand against the kings of privilege who own the old parties . . . [who] attempt to control our thoughts and dominate the life of man everywhere in the world...
...Pshaw, it's only four years. I can stand anything for four years," said Henrietta Nesbitt when she became housekeeper of the White House in 1933. But Mrs. Nesbitt, who was "pushing 60" when she became "First Housekeeper of the Land," stayed in office, like her boss, for 13 years. Unlike the memoirs of other members of President Roosevelt's entourage, her diary of those years has no political importance whatever-for the simple reason that Mrs. Nesbitt was much too busy feeding the politicians to bite off more than she could chew herself. Nonetheless, her prattling, naive...