Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This, thought Denmark's Communist daily, was too good to overlook. The ambassador's "escapist" party, crowed Land og Folk, pointed an ugly moral. Said Land og Folk: "It makes one think of other festivals where aristocrats amused themselves by dressing up as plain peasants -that was in the period preceding the French Revolution [when] the people of Versailles fled from reality into a rustic idyll . . . [Today again] exploited masses are rising and claiming their right-but our aristocrats do not want to hear...
Emperor Hirohito thought that his country's defeat, all in all, had not been such a bad thing. He assured newsmen that the war's results had led to better understanding between Japan...
...caught her foot in the hem of the fur coat she was carrying, tumbled down again. A sprained back forced her to step out of her three current Old Vic roles for two weeks. Said Vivien: "It was a beautiful fall." Said husband Sir Laurence Olivier: "My God, I thought she had broken her neck...
...three years ago, white-maned Albert Einstein sat down at his desk in Princeton, N.J., thought a moment and then wrote in careful longhand: "Here I sit in order to write, at the age of 67, something like my own obituary...
...Comment. All of them had five days of sightseeing and lectures. Dwight called on his Congressman, Republican Carl Hinshaw ("A commanding personality," Dwight thought), then on to Harry Truman, on whom he had no comment for the press. On the last night, he and his 39 colleagues crowded into the Presidential Room of the Hotel Statler with 300 other guests to hear who would win Westinghouse's $2,800 and $2,000 college scholarships. There were consolation awards for everybody else: eight $400 scholarships and 30 prizes of $100 each...