Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a practical politician's dilemma-to kiss or not to kiss-he escaped neatly by explaining that he had a cold. Back in his hotel room he added another reason, "I might have dropped one." The nominee's bronchial tubes enriched the conversation further during his stay. When Andrew Jackson Higgins, famed boatbuilder, asked after his health, Truman said, "I've just got the heaves, Andrew. Have a chair...
...YOUR OTHERWISE HANDSOME WORDS ON ME, YOU INDIRECTLY QUOTED ME AS COMMENTING THAT A DIRECTOR'S CHIEF FUNCTION IS TO STAY ON THE SET TO SEE THAT THE ACTORS DON'T GO HOME TOO EARLY (TIME, SEPT. 18). I DID MAKE THIS STATEMENT REGARDING ONE DIRECTOR IN PARTICULAR, BUT ITS USE IN YOUR STORY AS A GENERALITY HAS CAUSED ME MUCH EMBARRASSMENT AND DISCOMFORT. WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO PUBLISH THIS TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THIS DISPARAGEMENT APPLIED ONLY TO ONE MAN, WHOSE NAME AND ADDRESS I WILL SUPPLY AT THE DROP...
...Albany correspondents this week wrote "authoritative" stories saying that Dewey, if elected, would ask Cordell Hull to stay on to help him. Said Cordell Hull in careful reply: "My support and loyalty belong primarily to the Government and its present official head, President Roosevelt...
...London Clipper last week brought to Manhattan a copy of the first dispassionate and detailed account of music in Adolf Hitler's Germany. The Baton and the Jackboot by Berta Geissmar (Hamish Hamilton; 155) is the record of a Mannheim Jewess who managed to stay in the midst of Nazi musical politics until her escape from Germany before the war. Miss Geissmar was secretary of the Berlin Philharmonic. Her book gives an intimate picture of one of Nazi Germany's two world-famed musical figures, Conductor Wilhelm FurtwĠngler (the other: Composer Richard Strauss...
...socks. The canvas jungle boot, which may also be worn, does not chafe but its rubber sole provides no arch support on long marches. The eventual solution may be a boot-shoe with nylon uppers and cleated rubber sole-if a way can be found to make the cleats stay...