Word: refreshingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certainly knew how to deal with his Congressmen. Day in & day out, little Joe rose at 7, worked all day on Capitol Hill, as often as not lunched on a sandwich and piece of pie in the House cloakroom, and popped back into bed at 9:30 to refresh himself for another day. Unlike Taft, he commanded an overwhelming majority. One henchman chortled: "With our majority we actually told fellows they could vote as seemed best for their district situation...
...Open the Door, Richard on a Kay Kyser radio show and got a chromatic catcall from the president of the National Association of Schools of Music for "debasing his art." Pooh, retorted jovial Heldentenor Melchior. If the musical stuffed shirts wanted more blatant examples of undignified monkeyshines, he could refresh their memories. Once, he recalled, he sang a hillbilly song on the Fred Allen show; another time, he danced an Apache number in which he impersonated a female who could have mopped up on Briinnhilde...
...Stanley Mortimer Jr. and her clothes did it again-won the Best-Dressed Woman title for the second year running. Donors of the title: Manhattan's dressmakers, who sent some 150 hand-picked voters a list of past winners ("merely to refresh your mind") with the grave warning that the affair was "one which we try to conduct seriously...
Purpose of the course is to help provide trained summer camp instructors and to refresh those who are already Red Cross instructors...
...Suffolk to visit his good Fabian friends, Sidney and Beatrice Webb. The other guest was an idealistic Irish girl named Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend: she came from County Cork; her father was a millionaire. After the holiday Shaw wrote his beloved correspondent, Actress Ellen Terry: "I am going to refresh my heart by falling in love with her. I love falling in love...