Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders and the faulty information he had to base his decisions on. But the important thing was that General Eisenhower knew why we suffered that defeat. The point I'd like to make is that today, though the U.N. has not reached all its objectives, we, as well as much of the rest of the world, recognize those objectives. And we know that we are green, too-young in thinking in world terms...
Freshman on the Floor. In response to Taft's alarms, the Senate was treated to as remarkable a show by a freshman as it had seen in many a year. New York's John Foster Dulles, standing in the well of the chamber and pacing back & forth like a lawyer before a jury, delivered a point-by-point reply, then handled a two-hour grilling from his fellow Republicans with adroitness and composure...
...order's air of secrecy aroused violent political hostility in the U.S. When a ne'er-do-well ex-Mason named William Morgan wrote an "exposure" of its secrets, then disappeared, Masonry found itself fighting for its life. It was charged that Morgan, who had indeed been kidnaped in 1826, had also been slain. His body never turned...
...kind of detached and whimsical cloud floating somewhere above Masonry's topmost branches. Its members must all be 32nd degree Masons or Knights Templar. It was started about 1870 by William Florence who was fascinated by some Oriental rites he saw in Marseille. Florence was a well-known American comedian of his day. Harold Lloyd, the new Imperial Potentate, therefore follows in a noble tradition...
...their heyday beards were valued for keeping women in their place, preventing chest colds and "clergyman's throat' for "[sucking] out the abundant and gross humors of the cheeks," for concealing weak chins, and for training, "like well-bred wall plants." Their combings made an excellent stuffing for cushions. When not being wagged, beards could be carried in a velvet bag (as was one 16th Century dandy's), or their ends were wrapped around a smart walking cane or twined in & out of the waist belt. At night, of course, the beard could serve as an extra...