Word: stim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...together smoothly. Byrnes knows Washington and contemporary U.S. Government as few men do-he has been a Representative, Senator, Supreme Court Justice and "Assistant President" to Franklin Roosevelt. Harry Truman might have wished for a man with greater experience in foreign affairs-perhaps a 20-year-younger Henry L. Stim-son-but in Byrnes he got the other qualities he wanted...
...Gryphon in all his original scaly glory. Up at auction was the largest group in the U.S. of the great Sir John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice, Through the Looking-Glass and other drawings (collection of the late Bronson Winthrop, onetime law partner of War Secretary Henry L. Stim-son). The Gryphon, as well as the King and Queen of Hearts, the White Rabbit, the Mock Turtle, the Frog-Footman, and Alice herself brought good prices on the auction block. A drawing of Alice at the moment her neck started to lengthen ("Curiouser and curiouser!") went...