Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daugherty, New Dealing professor of business economics at Northwestern University, polished his rimless glasses. Judge Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser to Franklin Roosevelt, removed his hat from his large, pompadoured head. David Cole, Paterson, N.J. lawyer and veteran mediator, dressed in a well-draped tan suit, paused to pass a word with reporters. Then the three of them went in to the President to discuss their findings and point out their salient conclusions...
Cripps appeared still dead set against devaluation of the pound ("A rude word not allowed to be scribbled on the Treasury walls," cracked one British official). But more & more, in the face of Britain's dwindling dollar reserves, British opinion itself was pressing for devaluation. It was argued that devaluation was inevitable anyway, and that its delay had become a "psychological" obstacle to traders in the sterling area. London's Economist summoned British "statesmanship" to meet the crisis with "imagination...
...sons entered his office as clerks, St. Laurent paid them $2.25 a week with the explanation : "When you have no money to spend, you have more time for your books." Père St. Laurent also laid down the rules for his daughters' courtships. Said daughter Madeleine: "Father's word on any subject was final...
Every time Fleur Fenton Cowles tried to tell her publisher-husband, Gardner Cowles, about the kind of monthly class magazine she would like to start, she found herself repeating: "It's got to have flair." Says Fleur: "I couldn't get around the word. I just had to use it." After she had dreamed and importuned for two years, Publisher Cowles decided that Fleur was absolutely right. This week, 46-year-old "Mike" and his 50-year-old brother John, who already own two magazines (Look, Quick), four newspapers and four radio stations, announced that they will publish...
...than $1,000,000 when the owner threw in the towel. Gray still wishes Winston-Salem (pop. 90,000) could afford two independent papers because "monopoly journalism is inherently bad . . . It is a lot easier to run a newspaper if you are not the sole trustee of the printed word...