Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fill Calhoun. currently Paris bureau chief, had two weeks in which to deliver a very tough job of reporting. Heretofore, getting French communists to talk had been about as easy as nailing a cherry pie to a wall. Calhoun assigned Bernhard Frizell, an experienced reporter who speaks French fluently, to question ordinary communists as to why they joined the party and to interview Mme. Thorez, who turned out to be strongly reminiscent of Pilar in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
...father which stands on the mantel-old William Howard Taft, long coat swept back, right hand in hip pocket. One large photograph of the ex-President, vital and smiling, waving a hat, rests on the floor, against the fireplace. When people try to hang it on the wall, Bob Taft waves his hand and remonstrates: "No, I like it right there...
...Congress is working for special interests . . . the National Association of Broadcasters ... big business and Wall Street. . . . The Lea bill was conceived in malice and anger resulting from one of the most expensive and bitter anti-labor propaganda campaigns in the history of our country...
...checkered flag dropped. Thirty-three low-slung, supercharged autos growled and pushed for position. On the straightaway, 50-year-old Ralph Hepburn got the pace up to a deafening 168 m.p.h. On the 16th lap, a Fageol Special bucked on the northwest turn, sailed over the wall. During the first hour, 14 cars had to stop at the pits for repairs...
...Isadora's husband, an enthusiastic Communist, waved a red flag from a dressing room window, made a speech to the crowd below. While she danced, Isadora's dislike of her Brahmin audience got the best of her. She stopped, pointed indignantly at the Greek statues against the wall, shouted to the audience: "They are false! And you are as false as those plaster statues. You don't know what beauty is!" Isadora stripped open her costume, bared one of her breasts. "This-this is beauty!" she cried. Next day one of Boston's shocked newspapers reported...