Word: whims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whims & Fig Leaves. This has been achieved in spite of rather than because of the industry, which is skittery and as subject to sudden sinking spells as any industry that lives to satisfy woman's whim. Its 11,000 employers are mostly small businessmen who must move rapidly and warily in a trade that is bitterly competitive, determinedly rapacious. A man with a design idea and a batch of orders can have a Cadillac and an establishment on Riverside Drive in six months. Then, like a gust of wind in a wheat field, women's minds change...
...When a whim gets into big (250 pounds), jolly Congressman Frank Boykin, it sits there gnawing like a boll weevil until he does something about it. Like when he was 16, a poof farm boy, and got the urge to make money. Frank went out, became one of Alabama's biggest lumber and turpentine tycoons, and made himself a few million. Or like the other day, when he got the idea he should do something for his old pal, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...investigation by whim can do much more then injure one man or cripple one agency. It can undermine the morale of the entire civil service. It will certainly be difficult to get more men like David Lilienthal--men this country desperately needs--if any government worker must expect attacks on his personal principles and his work at any time by Congressional committees. It doesn't make much sense to deplore the lack of intelligent civil servants and at the same time allow the McKellars and Hickenloopers to attack whomever they please whenever they please. The choice is between a government...
Occasionally a sports event satisfies and soothes every whim and pore of the true sports enthusiast. Tonight's varsity swimming meet at Princeton--an unpredictable battle between two equally dangerous teams should gratify even the most dichard of the sports purists. In a word, it promises to be close...
...pursuit of fun. There had always been method of a sort in his sportiveness. Porter himself once said: "I am spending my life escaping boredom, not because I'm bored, but because I don't want to be." He has always arranged his days with a whim of iron, and he refuses to be bored for as long as 15 minutes at a time. Such a schedule requires a certain ruthlessness, and Porter's Broadway associates and friends have learned to make the best...