Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ypsilanti jeweler and friend of the Handy family got in the last word. Said Jeweler Cyrus C. Jenks: "Can't be so. He hasn't bought a ring from me, and, as a matter of fact, hasn't even discussed...
...John Nance Garner had sat for seven years on his Texas farm, stubbornly refusing to say a word about the past. He had even burned all his records (TIME, July 14). But in the long run he could not resist the temptation to join the long line of Franklin Roosevelt's old intimates in the writing of memoirs.* With Garner's blessing, Washington Correspondent Bascom N. Timmons, a crony of his Washington days, drew on his own notes and memory, started the ex-Vice President's story last week in Collier's. Some milk and thorns...
...picked the dress to have "something old"-she had bought it a week before. Her stockings were "something new," her handkerchief "borrowed" and her orchid "blue." Rockefeller wore a tan gabardine suit. His voice sank as he made the responses. Bobo answered clearly; the Presbyterian minister omitted the word "obey...
...looked at plays of violence, Dartmouth College, the Marshall Plan, Herodotus, New Mexico (from dinosaurs to A-bombs), "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Eastern potentates, bestsellers, babysitting, Eva Perón, the War Assets Administration and Existentialism. Strunsky's skillful use of the telling fact, the apt comparison, the impeccable word made "Topics" a model of the vanishing essay form. Without blushing, his admirers, from Franklin P. Adams to Lin Yutang, compared Strunsky to Addison & Steele and Charles Lamb...
...suggestion of B. F. Goodrich Co.'s John Collyer, who dislikes the word "synthetic," the terms "American-made" or "chemical rubber" are used throughout the bill...