Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arbiter of both major political parties, "American Action" has fond its place rather conspicuous in the Republican sun. In the Illinois congressional elections, for instance, Chairman Hayes has shared levels of demagoguery with Governor Green in attacks on Democratic candidates in all six districts awaiting decision today. And not content to be a piker or a hypocrite, Hayes has echoed the "Chicago Tribune" in its daily harangues against Henry Wallace and the Truman administration...
Most editors of the religious press seem to think it consists of denominational doings and sectarian social notes. After analyzing the content of 64 Protestant periodicals in the current issue of Christendom, Professor of Journalism Roland E. Wolseley concludes: "Although secular ... business journals are dedicated to the interests of their own groups, many of them, nevertheless, see the value of keeping their readers informed about the progress of the industry as a whole. Christianity is at least as international as business, yet we find many denominational weeklies and monthlies which in an entire 16- or 32-page issue will quite...
...machine was notorious. Penrose's predecessor was Boss Matthew Stanley Quay, the dark, withered, predatory man whose miscast eyes were cocked over all the craft and spoliation in Pennsylvania. Quay had been content to run the machine. Curiously, Penrose's chief ambition was to be mayor of Philadelphia, an aim which he might have achieved if he had not been photographed one dawn leaving a Philadelphia brothel. Pennsylvania's voters, however, sent him to the Senate for 24 years...
...express the gratitude of the Japanese people to General MacArthur . . . is not to worship him as a god but to cast away the servile spirit and gain the self-respect that would not bow its head to anybody. Only thus would MacArthur rest content...
...Canadian steaks could be eaten only in Canada. Most tourists could not take them across the line into the U.S. Reason: meat is rationed in Canada to one coupon (good for i to 3 Ibs., depending on the bone content) per person per week, and tourists had to stay at least seven days to get ration coupons. Tourists who tried to smuggle in meat were nabbed at customs. (One U.S. citizen who tried to take back $110 worth of meat had to give the meat away.) New York reporters, on meat-hunting assignments in Canada, found "a paradise of pork...