Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newcomer Shaw, who once carved the hides from the critics for criticizing his plays: "I will want to follow every syllable of Mr. Shaw's postmortems. ... I will be sitting at the foot of a master eager for the smallest drops of instruction. ... I shall read his every word, hoping ... to learn more about my occupation. . . . Welcome, stranger...
...knew that it had no chance to take home the Wightman Cup (for women's tennis). But there was a match to be played, and 38-year-old Captain Ted Avory, who helped select the British team, had picked the best in British tennis. U.S. spectators, taking his word for that, decided that he had also picked the best-looking...
...influence of these cynics is increased by the traditional American faith in the infallibility of the written word. Our Constitutional experience has bred a belief that once an organization has been set up, and its rules put on paper, things will practically run themselves. But events in the U.N. are demonstrating that the problem of maintaining peace is more than just finding the magic formula and writing it into the law of nations. The struggle for peace and security is a continuing one. The next few months may well be crucial in the formation of the public opinion that will...
Hearing the word "entertainment," Senator Ferguson grabbed at it with relief, looked around the packed room and shouted, "Where's Johnny Meyer?" Hughes said he didn't know, and laughed right in the Senator's face. Ferguson said grimly, "It isn't funny." He asked Hughes: "Will you bring Mr. Meyer in?" After a long pause Hughes replied coldly: "No, I don't think I will." The two men glared hard at each other, then Ferguson signed a subpoena for Expense Account Johnny...
...captured and shot. Early in the morning of April 30, Hitler married Eva Braun. (She supplied, says the author, "that ideal of restfulness . . . for which his bourgeois soul so hankered.") That day in the Chancellery canteen, where the soldiers and orderlies took their meals, there was a dance. Word went up from the Führerbunker to make less noise. At 3:30 p.m., Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide, he by shooting, she with poison; their bodies were carried outside to the garden and burned. It was a horse-opera Liebestod, enacted to the crash of Russian shells...