Word: departments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Going Down? In Chicago, a 3,000-lb. elephant named Judy, on her feet all day doing publicity for the book department, nervously refused to leave the third floor of the Marshall Field department store by the freight elevator which brought her, consented to depart five hours later down a special ramp built onto the fire stairs...
...Generous and mentally at ease: "He cultivates his conduct without cease and in his private life he does not abandon himself. When he is successful, he does not depart from the truth. In his personal manners he values living in peace and harmony with others. . . . He admires those cleverer than himself and is generous toward the masses and is flexible in principle...
Bill Lamborn, the rotund, one-armed reception clerk who has presided at the Governor's office for most of his 65 years, has seen four men depart and run for the Presidency, and two of them succeed. He goes about his business amiably conscious of his responsibilities, knowing the odds are good that he will be serving another President in his lifetime...
Masikoni Radebe, an amiable and middle-aged Zulu, was asleep with his wife in the servant quarters of a fashionable Durban apartment house when police barged in, herded the startled couple into a waiting van. At the station the Radebes saw scores of bewildered blacks pay a pound and depart. Those who could not pay were locked up. Radebe paid and went home...
...That might seem desirable, if we wanted to depart from democratic principles. . . . Mr. Bernal is not a Mexican according to our law. ... It would not take Mrs. Bernal long to become an American. . . . The Republic of Mexico is ... a friendly neighbor. . . . Because I feel that the [deed] restriction is contrary to public policy and . . . decidedly unconstitutional ... I will order judgment for defendants...