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...1930s, many a U.S. housewife without so much as a Cadillac to call her own wrung her hands in anguish over the plight of a pathetic, ten-year-old waif named Gloria Vanderbilt. Fatherless at two, Gloria was heir to a trust fund totaling some $3,000,000, and nobody seemed to love her for her wide-eyed, wispy self alone. In one of the most relentlessly publicized custody fights of all time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo...
This applause did not mean that many Congressmen or other influential Americans agreed with Rhee's specific proposals. The speech was widely regarded as "provocative" and "ill-timed," and the New York Times wrung its hands so hard over it that its editorial knuckles almost cracked...
Zouzou stormed, swore, cried. A police captain, summoned, wrung his hands, rang his friends and knew not what to do. Safsaf got on the phone and asked to speak to his love. "Never," cried Zouzou. "I won't speak to him until he brings me my divorce. I'll never go back to that bald, blind, unmanly...
...plateau of teamwork can be reached through a city's slum section, which produces an everlasting succession of headaches but little revenue for private real-estate men. "My guess is that nobody in this audience is handling slum homes. You want customers-not the nickels and dimes wrung out of human misery...
...Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault said: "The situation in Europe is identical with what it was before ... but the results on Asia would in themselves justify the meeting of the four ministers." Proudly and perhaps unwisely, M. Bidault represented the Geneva agreement as a concession he had wrung from Dulles in return for Bidault's loyal and able help on the German problem...