Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bigheaded Richard Allen Knight, disbarred, divorced, disgruntled onetime lawyer and master of legal billingsgate, went on a well-publicized bender in Manhattan. (He once posed for photographers standing on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House-TIME, Dec. 11, 1939.) On plushy upper Fifth Avenue, he followed up a street-corner conga by soundly bussing a couple of female passersby, then plunged into the Plaza Art Auction Galleries, where he encountered a statuesque beauty (an armless Venus) and struck up a conversation with her. Repairing briefly to the Sherry-Netherland bar, he emerged, gathered another crowd by bawling the headlines...
...Morgenthau's upper lip was stiff. With inflation control in mind, he bravely announced that he intended to get eight of his 13 billions from nonbanking sources. To help, he set up a new Treasury War Finance Committee, headed by General Foods Vice President William M. Robbins, whom he took away from a $1-a-year WPB job. Handsome William Robbins, 41, who specialized in sales before he went to Washington, has the world's biggest selling job on his hands now: in one swoop he must raise 56 times as much money as big General Foods took...
Coleman Hawkins was something of a disappointment. His tone was threadbare in the upper registers, his ideas frequently lapsed into blatant riffs. Worst of all, Hawkins' attitude toward the audience can only he called condescending. Still, there were moments when the old Hawk showed through, and those were worth the price of admission...
Coleman Hawkins was something of a disappointment. His tone was threadbare in the upper registers, his ideas frequently lapsed into blatant rifts. Worst of all, Hawkins' attitude toward the audience can only be called condescending. Still, there were moments when the old Hawkshowed through, and those were, worth the price of admission...
Berlin claimed that the Germans were on the offensive along a 155-mile front in the middle and upper Donets River regions, presumably near Izyum. Troops operating in the "area of Kharkov," Berlin said, had encircled the Soviet Third Tank Army. Other forces were said to have "stormed" Slavyansk, an important railhead north of Stalino, which the Russians had recaptured in mid-February. The Germans were evidently bent on holding the Donets salient as long as they could, regardless of what happened in north Russia...