Word: angular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title role which she first played in New York in 1924 and again in 1937, Katharine Cornell was this time much more human, much less conscious of her own radiance. Raymond Massey and Dudley Digges made Candida's sermonizing husband understandable, her scoundrelly father amusing. As the angular Prossy, Mildred Natwick, concurrently giving eight performances a week as the comic medium in Blithe Spirit, reached her comic high in Candida. But best of all was Private Burgess Meredith who, on leave from the Army with only four days to rehearse in, became the only bearable Marchbanks that anyone could...
Unlike his two Congressional colleagues, lank, angular Hamilton Fish wants to stay in. Ham had hawked his brand of isolation ism far & wide; had worked hard against the President, against England; often, before Pearl Harbor, advocated a negotiated peace. Stepping out of Joachim von Ribbentrop's plane in 1939, Fish opined that Germany's claims were "just." Two months ago he finally went before a District Court to explain his relations with George Sylvester Viereck, Nazi propaganda agent, and there let the blame fall on his secretary, George Hill, already in jail for perjury in the matter...
...Tall, angular Brayton C. Case has stuck to his post at the repeatedly bombed agricultural school at Pyinmana near Toun-goo, despite the departure of all civil authority. He is marshaling food supplies for the Chinese armies, sending them truckload after truckload of cabbages, pigs, everything else he can lay his hands on. "If I ran off," he said, "there would be no one around to round up food for these Chinese...
...Dealer of Cabinet rank to exchange for Deputy Prime Minister Walter ("Wai") Nash of New Zealand. To his surprise, he couldn't find one. So he dipped down into the Republican grab bag and came up with Herbert Hoover's old Secretary of War, angular but still handsome Patrick Jay Hurley...
...Zealand (pop: 3,122,000-less than Chicago) has suddenly become important to the U.S. And Pat Hurley, angular but still handsome, is an important figure of a man. He joined the A.E.F. as a cavalry officer in World War I, was cited for gallantry, promoted to lieutenant colonel. He lately helped negotiate a ticklish oil agreement between the U.S. and Mexico (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). Raised to the rank of brigadier general (reserve) last month, Pat Hurley stepped off into the Pacific before anybody knew where he was going. He went under sealed orders, left beauteous Mrs. Hurley behind...