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...cliches from her address : "It is a great thing to be an American woman ... In America today women are a tremendous force." Mrs. Mesta wore a chic black dress and liberal strands of pearls and looked, withal, as though she had just come in from cooking over a hot stove...
...told a group from Nebraska. "It is the basic belief that is important." To half a hundred Missouri delegates and alternates he used brisker language. "As long as we are in this thing," he said with a grin, "let's stick in it together and throw the stove lid at anything that gets in our way!" "I don't," he told men & women from Oklahoma, "make promises that a bottle of ointment will cure you of everything from poverty to flat feet...
...Olympic Year, and if there were a pot-bellied stove in the lobby of the indoor Athletic Building, it's likely that old Harvard men would be sitting there discussing the good old times, past Olympic years...
...Southern bloc, endorsed him. But in so doing they said: "He has always remained loyal [to the party] and may be counted on to do so in the future." In politics, this is like saying that the endorsee can be counted on not to steal a red-hot stove. Sparkman and Hill are not so much interested in promoting Russell's candidacy as in discouraging another walkout of Southern Democrats. They are probably right in predicting that Russell will remain loyal. The significant fact, however, is that Russell himself refuses to say flatly that he will abide...
...west coast, they struck out for Havana, and almost at once ran into a late spring storm. Afraid to put into an Irish port for fear of being picked up, they tried to make the open sea. Everything went wrong: the engine failed, the ship caught fire when a stove turned over, an anchor was lost, the sailing gear fouled. To save themselves and the boat, Ann and Frank worked themselves to exhaustion. For a while, Frank went out of his mind and his wife had to handle him and the ship through a smashing gale. Even after the Reliance...