Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national conventions, he opened his lofty, cavernous Manhattan studio to a crowd of fourscore friends who shared his sympathies. The result was an Independent Voters' Committee of the Arts & Sciences for Roosevelt, the forerunner of ICCASP. The founders, among them Helen Keller, Thomas Benton, Ethel Barrymore, Van Wyck Brooks, Quentin Reynolds, excitedly made Davidson chairman-largely because he had let his studio be used for the first meeting...
...months burly Baron Digby has risen at 6:30 a.m. After breakfast his Lordship, wearing his habitual thick brown tweeds and checked cap on his bald head, steps into the stone-paved yard of his rambling Tudor manor house. Standing by the dairy is a neat, navy blue, electric van, loaded with Guernsey milk from Lord Digby's 30 pedigreed cows, pastured on his 200-acre farm. Accompanied by his helper, aged Edwin White, Lord Digby hops in and sets off to deliver milk to the inhabitants of Cerne Abbas...
When his Lordship first arrived with milk, class-conscious housewives were somewhat embarrassed. Today the van's super service and Baron Digby's affable, businesslike manner have ended all that. Not only does he supply rich milk (at the regulation fivepence a pint), but the van is loaded with vegetables, flowers and fresh fruit, grown on Lord Digby's larger estate at Minterne, a mile away...
Says plump, bespectacled Mrs. Shuttle, wife of Cerne Abbas' stationer: "He's a real nice gentleman." She describes how Lord Digby stands behind the van bellowing cheerfully: "What do you want this morning, Mrs. Shuttle?" Mrs. Shuttle gives her order and hands over her shopping basket: "Then, like as not, he'll say, 'Now don't you worry, Mrs. Shuttle, I'll take it for you,' and he marches through the shop into the kitchen with the goods. Now there ain't many people who'd do that for you, lord...
...planes were mostly stripped-down ex-Army pursuits-wax-covered P-38s, fat-bellied P-51 Mustangs, and a Kingcobra with two feet chopped off each wing. They roared down the runway at the Van Nuys airfield, zoomed above the Hollywood hills...