Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it was over, Tallulah kept Sharland on for two hours while she delivered the speech she later made for President Truman. Says Photographer Sharland: "She was very nice, very sweet, and very cooperative." Bernstein and Miss Sulzberger felt the same way about Tallulah and told her so when, at one point in their interview, she stopped suddenly and asked: "Do you all like...
...walked across Pennsylvania Avenue from Blair House to the White House. He also continued his prebreakfast constitutionals. Many an early riser in Washington was pleased and astonished to see the President smiling or waving at him. A motorist almost ran him down; Harry Truman skipped lightly out of the way...
...supposed to have slain his dragon, a winter sun beat fiercely on old walls radiant with purple bougainvillaea and flaming crimson poinsettias. Its rays glittered gaily in the gentle wash of Mediterranean tides on Lebanon beaches, and shone on the sleek hoods of shiny new U.S. taxicabs weaving their way through clusters of bronzed and burnoosed Arabs...
...heavy mist of insubstantial words. Through it one could hear the faint humming sound of platitudes being rubbed together, of logs being rolled, of whitewash being slapped across naked raw spots of international dispute. "Her interpretation of the dance is certainly interesting. Now if we could find a way to bring it down to the level of popular understanding . . ." Or: "It might be beneficial for us to initiate plans for a study with a view to promoting more understanding . . ." Scarcely a speech failed to make a bow to UNESCO's objectives, "human rights and fundamental freedoms . . without distinction...
...cautions came again from all house heads us the search for a prowler who concentrated his intruding into Radcliffe dormitories at 6 Acacia st. and 6 Appian Way covered Cambridge and surrounding territory...