Word: usher
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...Detroit police learned from Raymond W. Scott, a movie usher, why he had falsely reported that a time bomb was in the theater: for six weeks he had been looking at the same Lana Turner movie...
President Conant diagnosed Russia's leaders as "fanatic believers in a consis- tent policy which rune back to Marx. According to this philosophy," he said, "they believe themselves pioneers who will eventually usher in a utopian...
...smooth. Roughest point: at the space reserved for Eire's delegation, a conference flunky put a card marked Irlande du Nord. The indignant Irish delegate, Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, suspected a British plot. The head usher hastily repaired this gaffe by sending for scissors, cutting off the last two words...
...university constituencies: "They dignify and widen the whole course of our democratic proceedings." Was the government's motto, he asked, "No brains wanted?" Among the departed great who sat for the universities had been Francis Bacon, Sir Isaac Newton (whose only remembered speech was to ask an usher to close a window), the younger Pitt, Peel, Palmerston and Gladstone...
...Candidate Wallace sounded his own call to arms: "We have assembled a Gideon's army,† small in number, powerful in conviction, ready for action. . . . We face the future unfettered by any principle but the general welfare. ... By God's grace, the people's peace will usher in the century of the common...