Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweet But Very Sad." He was an impatient, young (32) Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He wrote Babs: "These dear good people like W.J.B. [Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan] and J.D. [Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels] have about as much conception of what a general European war means as Elliott has of higher mathematics." Later: ' I am running the real work, although Josephus is here. He is bewildered by it all, very sweet but very...
Utah Pies. The atmosphere of sweet reasonableness was so pervasive that N.A.M. brought forth none of the resolutions that often raise the hackles of more liberal businessmen. It contented itself with a mild request that the U.S. budget be held to a $37 billion ceiling, and a plea for a "readjusting" of income taxes. It listened politely to the demand, by Chrysler's B. E. Hutchinson, for a return to the gold standard, but gently pigeonholed...
...Almost-right" is almost right, and sweet of you to say so [TIME, Nov. 15], but it won't do. I made no attempt to "predict the election," a business up to the electorate. I said, on the evidence of what I could see and sense from, where I sat ... that it was going to be close-closer than the country thought. It was. That wasn't "almost-right." It was right. Quite right...
...concerning "the debutante industry" [TIME, Nov. 81, I was somewhat amazed, yet amused, to read of the "lissome" Joanne Connelley so nonchalantly dismissing the clever loquaciousness, genuine intellect, and congenial drinking habits of college "boys" in her sophisticated, world-weary attitude . . . It appears to our entire fraternity that this "sweet and young" 18-year-old apparently hasn't met true college...
When it was over, Tallulah kept Sharland on for two hours while she delivered the speech she later made for President Truman. Says Photographer Sharland: "She was very nice, very sweet, and very cooperative." Bernstein and Miss Sulzberger felt the same way about Tallulah and told her so when, at one point in their interview, she stopped suddenly and asked: "Do you all like...