Word: concord
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...printing plants in Concord, N.H. and Dayton, Ohio, the presses had run off a third of the 11-million-copy run of the January issue of the Reader's Digest last week before they were abruptly stopped. Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace and his staff had decided, after reading the late war news, to replace the lead article on MacArthur's Korean triumph titled "The Right Man in the Right Place." (About 4,000,000 copies had already been distributed.) Collier's, with a closing five weeks in advance of publication, could not do anything about its issue...
...clean and moral house. I ain't had but one regular house guest hung for murder-that was Fred Small who was dropped in 1918 over in Concord ... I made a special trip to Concord and gave him my suit and that is a damned sight better service to the guest than . . . the Statler people have in the past, or will in the foreseeable future render a guest...
...John Home Tooke, philologist,* scholar and political agitator, was moved to such indignation at the sacrifices which had taken place on the battlefields of Lexington and Concord that he launched in London a public subscription in behalf of "our beloved American fellow subjects." Result: he was fined ?200 and clapped into King's Bench prison for a year. The kindness of his Tory gaolers in permitting him to dine out once a week at the nearby Dog & Duck tavern only served to increase Whig Tooke's bitterness against them; he blamed the gout from which he suffered...
...chairs and chamois-covered walls, hurriedly built for last week's meeting of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg. Said he: "It is a wonder that we sit here in our new House of Europe, calmly discussing our plans for the future happiness and concord of our peoples and their moral and cultural ideals. It is a wonder, but at least it is better than getting into a panic...
Daniel Chester French was only 24 when he finished his first major sculpture, the bronze Minute Man at Concord. Men of letters, such as Longfellow and Emerson, beamed encouragingly on his work. President Grant and most of his cabinet came on for the unveiling, which moved French's proud but cautious father to observe: "This is Fame, Dan. Make the most of it, for you don't know how long it will last...