Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who wanted to get a line on General Marshall as Secretary of State could profitably read his 1,800-word farewell statement on China. It reflected a man of patience, firmness and devotion to fact, a man who would try to be fair at all costs. It also reflected the temper of a man who could get indignant but still speak with determined moderation...
Monty: Now, by Britannia's word...
...American womanhood got a kind word from Visitor Maria Romano de Gasperi, 23-year-old daughter of Italy's visiting Premier. She had thought the girls who came to Italy-"so nice, so full of life"-were exceptions; now she found that "these qualities are peculiar to all American women." She also admired their clothes. "But I think," she added, "that American women look better when they wear sport clothes than when they try to look sophisticated...
...comparatively small (31 million) audience is, comparatively speaking, a class audience. It includes collegians (from Harvard to Siwash) and their professors, the Duke of Windsor, Margaret Truman, John Steinbeck†- and, significantly, hundreds of newspaper executives. Two years ago, when a score of syndicate salesmen began to spread the word of a new, as yet unnamed and undrawn comic by Caniff, they had nothing to sell but Caniff's name. For U.S. publishers, that was enough...
...characters as carefully as any fiction writer. "The guy, now, had to have a name that would stick," Caniff explained. "It had to be three syllables, Dead-eye-Dick, or John-Paul-Jones. . . . Steve-Canyon. Not a real name, or one you could turn into a dirty word. But a guy who'd have a girl in every port, and could do all the things that a youngster like Terry couldn't. Why, Terry couldn't even smoke. And with people in the Orient we couldn't use those casual, normal insults that pass between Americans...