Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graft and patronage have been a part of Boston since before the time of Curley, and partisans of good government are afraid they will stay on after the 71-year old boss retires from the municipal whirl. Of payroll padding, the Finance Commission reported in 1945 "that the identity of some subordinates is unknown even to their immediate superiors." With great eclat, Curley has discharged groups of officials in a burst of economy only to fill the vacancies in the succeeding weeks with his henchmen and not a few of his family...
...Panama, there were low mutterings of "Qué horror!" (Outrageous!). From Havana, Trygve Lie cabled apologies. On his whirl through the Antilles and Central America, he had missed a banquet tossed for him by the Lions Club in Panama City's swank Union Club. Some 133 guests, including the entire diplomatic corps, the entire Panamanian Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued...
...gentle beauty. She still shows the benign effects of a limpid childhood and shines quietly with another unpurchasable endowment-an ineradicable gentility. Thanks to an ex-professional aunt in Bristol, Deborah, early in life, had several years' stiff training as an actress. Later she took a whirl at ballet. But her well-padded, 5 ft.-7 in. frame was a bit bulky for ballet, and realizing, as she now says, that "this [indicating her face] was the only thing I had to work with," she began hunting jobs on the stage...
With the signing of this deal, Connie Hilton wound up a year-end whirl which had added Nos. 13, 14 and 15 to his $80,000,000 chain...
...have hailed Richards' work on human grounds alone. But any suspicion of his activities as fuzzy intellectualism was banished during the war when jutting-jawed, pragmatic military men beat a path to his Peabody House office, asking for aid. In one ease Richards and a small staff, in a whirl of activity, taught 1000 Chinese naval officers enough Basic English to operate a ship-in six weeks. Here he also made films with Disney for use in Armed Forces classes for illiterates...