Word: summing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except on the occasions when the Senate considers immigration legislation (no living Senator can draw a more appalling picture of the Yellow, Black and Brown Perils) this daily matinee is the sum total of Bob Reynolds' Senate achievements. His only other distinctions: that he was one of the Senate's most rabid isolationists until "We were attacked, suh!"; that he is rabidly antilabor; that he once shot an Alaskan bull walrus at 20 paces; that he once kissed the late Jean Harlow on the Capitol steps...
...charged, in sum, that the President's leadership in the crucial prewar years left the U.S. unprepared, either by physical armament or mental attitude...
Mozart: Divertimento for Violin, Viola & Cello, K. 563 (Jascha Heifetz, William Primrose, Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 8 sides). All-star cast, probably the most brilliant that could have been assembled, with a resulting whole that is nearly but not quite the sum of its parts -Heifetz sometimes neglects teamwork. Performance excellent, recording excellent...
Chairman Walter F. George of the Senate Finance Committee guesstimated the bill's cost at $3,500,000,000. But the economy-minded Senator and his Committee were not aghast at this sum. While the bill is "admittedly more extensive and generous" than any in history, said they, "we view it as true economy, the best money that can be spent for the future welfare of the nation. The men and women who compose our armed forces . . . not only now hold the destiny of this Republic firmly in their hands, they will so hold it for a generation...
...witted love of titles, once sent a letter to the University of Pennsylvania offering it the dedication of his Fourth Symphony in return for a doctor's degree. When his offer was ignored, he fell into the hands of a swindler, whom he paid a considerable sum to wangle him a degree from the University of Cincinnati. In his home, next to the bathtub, he kept a bust of himself on a pedestal...