Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Open Letter. Nanking, Paris, London, Berlin, Moscow, New York newspapers blazoned the story that Russia had accepted a U.S. bid to talk about their differences. For hours, while almost no one analyzed the Smith-Molotov texts, the whole world felt a springlike breath of hope. The magic word "peace" appeared in headlines. People saw a melting of the frozen front of the cold war. Tom Dewey, electioneering in Oregon, hailed it as "the best news since V-J day if they [the Russians] mean...
Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was still not talking, but the word went out last week that he is available for the Republican presidential nomination and that he would accept it. This was, perhaps, the biggest news of the political campaign to date...
...that his friends around the country would not start making a big noise about his candidacy. They wanted him to keep his standing as a dark horse, but they also wanted his friends to be no longer in the dark about his willingness to run. They could spread the word quietly to state leaders and delegates; they would not turn on any heat, would make no promises. But there would be no more disclaimers about his interest in the nomination...
...accuse or even suspect any student of dishonorable practices. In the last of instructions distributed to the proctors at the same meeting, Article 29 reads: "Tell Mr. Leonard at the first opportunity of any irregularity whatever occurring during the examination...." And it is interesting to note that the word "cheat" does not make a single appearance on this two-page sheet of instructions...
...saddened because his own U.S. had "no sovereign, no court, no aristocracy . . . nor manors, nor thatched cottages, nor ivied ruins." It is a novel of explicit social significance, about London's anarchist workers and their starry-eyed aristocratic sympathizers. Columbia Professor Lionel Trilling, in a 15,000-word introduction to The Princess, credits James with "a first-rate rendering of literal social reality." But the reader will probably feel that for all James's intentions, his poor are specimens under-glass, people he merely glimpsed during his endless London strolls. They are the aristocrats of the poor, never...