Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late years The Old Man learned that collaboration with the Communists was impossible. With U.S. support and prodding, as head of a Liberal-Right wing coalition, he pursued the civil war as best he could. He was generally regarded as Greece's wisest statesman (which was not saying very much) ; he was certainly more honest and better liked by his people than most other Greek leaders...
Bureaucrat's Lawyer. The Black Tom case brought McCloy to the attention of a shrewd judge of men, Elder Statesman Henry Stimson. In 1940, when Stimsori went to Washington as Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of War, he made McCloy his special consultant on German espionage...
...Statesman and Nation's Sagittarius (Olga Katzin Miller) has written a dedication in verse ("Hedunit") to the hawk-nosed man in the deerstalker cap who "started a mania for singular cases, started a craving few addicts restrain, started a saga of amateur aces, whimsical, taciturn, dashing, urbane . . ." Holmes Addict Christopher Morley (see BOOKS), who helped found the Baker Street Irregulars in the U.S., contributed a satire on espionage in Washington and the atom bomb. Oldtime (80) shudder man Algernon Blackwood wrote a story of horror in a child's nursery that was reminiscent of The Turn...
...default. Last week, for the third time in six weeks, Premier Ho Ying-chin sent in his resignation. This time President Li Tsung-jen accepted it. Li submitted to a Legislative Yuan meeting at Canton the nomination of Elder Statesman Chu Cheng (age 73). Opposition included a woman legislator in slacks and a Hawaiian blouse, who yelled into a microphone: "He's too old for the job." Shocked oldsters came to Chu Cheng's defense. Said one: "Chu Cheng can still climb the hundreds of stone steps leading up to Chungking." The argument availed nothing. When Marshal...
...Turnips. The critics were kind, found some subtleties to admire in his abstractionist experiments. Said the New Statesman & Nation: "This Universe of ghosts with turnip heads and scrolls of tin for bodies is by no means unreal . . ." But what interested gallerygoers most were Lewis' portraits of some of his literary friends, e.g., Poets T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Stephen Spender. Using the diluted cubism that gives all his work a curiously geometrical air, Lewis had hit off an easily recognizable likeness every time...