Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Renie, mononymic Hollywood fashion designer, peered into the future, spied something eye-bugging: "transparent covering over the bosom for cocktail and evening clothes-and complete exposure in some instances." To the surprise of few, the Hollywood-Broadway axis straightway began to bare its collective breast...
...some-like those at SHAEF-are especially unloved. Said the New York Times's crack Drew Middleton: "The worst [censorship] I have experienced in five years." The OWI's brash George H. Lyon (former Buffalo Times editor) risked a reprimand by calling SHAEF policy "stupid," and was straightway backed up by his boss, Elmer Davis...
Twenty minutes later the party encountered the revolutionary Colonel Diógenes Gil in a car with a civilian chauffeur. Colonel Gil straightway sought the President's ear. The situation, he said, was serious. To avoid bloodshed, he suggested, the President should make him Minister of War. The President was outraged...
...grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," the rain-goddess showed the prospector a great stone. She rolled away the stone, and entered the cave of Lobengula. With the rain-goddess and the prospector was a Matabele named Ginyilitshe. The desecration of the cave filled Ginyilitshe with fear, and he ran straightway to Bulawayo, to a white man trusted by the Matabele: Arthur Huxtable, District Commissioner for Native Affairs...
Died. Will Caton, 66, ace breeder and driver of harness horses ; after long illness; in Cleveland. As a 16-year-old, Caton drove at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, was straightway hired by the late Tsar of Russia. After eleven years at the royal reins he signed with a Russian nobleman at an unheard-of guarantee ($20,000 a year and 15% of his winnings). Captured by Bolsheviks in 1917, he worked as a prisoner on a model stock farm. After three years he returned to the U.S.; won the 1932 Hambletonian ; rolled his employers' total...