Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First commentator heard on the CBS roundup from England was Ed Murrow. Said he: "This is Trafalgar Square. The noise you hear at the moment is the sound of the air-raid siren." Calmly Murrow described the searchlights stabbing the London sky, the muted traffic, the shelter beneath St. Martin's in the Fields. He was still talking when the program moved on to the kitchen of the Savoy Hotel, where Bob Bowman described a menu that included eight hors d'oeuvres, eight different kinds of meat and game. With him was famed Chef François Latry...
...round cherubic features which, he says, make him look like a rear view of Cupid and prevent his being taken as a serious thinker. He went home for the dinner that in Emporia comes at noon. After dinner he stretched out on his double mahogany bed that stands beneath three ivy-shaded windows, put two pillows under his head, and slept...
...untrue: the device of discovering a character in a narrow corner, where he sits obligingly remembering his story for the camera. The story that passes before the blank eyes of François (Jean Gabin) in his garret room, as the police stand waiting for him on the street beneath, is strange and more worth remembering than most...
...booed to the flag-draped rafters, while delegation after delegation said its say for Franklin Roosevelt, the President played host to a radio party of friends and trusted helpers. In the historic study that is saturated with the memories of critical scenes and critical decisions, he sat attentive beneath a painting of John Paul Jones...
Tommy Crump was a sergeant in the Minnesota Volunteers during the Civil War. In 1865 he enrolled in Seabury Divinity School in Faribault (pronounced Farribo), Minn., but a stoutly martial heart still beat beneath his cloth. Observing that the boys in the preparatory department of the Divinity School were undisciplined, Tommy Crump took to drilling them in the afternoons, using sticks as muskets, into the first cadet corps in any secondary school in the U. S. Minnesota's Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple turned away from the Indians long enough to persuade the War Department to detail a regular...