Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Months of Indecision. Last week Jim Farley all but said that the Party was in a hell of a shape in a hell of a year. The man who had put it in its condition was Franklin Roosevelt, to whom The Party is merely a means to a larger end. Mounting strain had become almost intolerable. It was caused by an unanswered question: Was Franklin Roosevelt going to run for a Third Term...
...from all directions; 1,900 U. S. flags hoisted by the city of Philadelphia; a reading clerk, tuned up for the hurly-burly by practicing 30 minutes daily in a soundproof garage, reading Elaine's oration on Garfield; Boss Joe Pew saying, "I am for Governor James until hell freezes over or until we reach the 252nd ballot" - interpreted as meaning that he had switched to Willkie, Dewey, or Taft; Candidate Taft three hours late for his first press conference (Was he making a deal? Had he simply overslept?); Candidate Dewey denying that any deal would be made...
...Paris. There he and the woman he loves continued the life they had led since they moved to France three years ago, building their days around the little problems of whom they might invite for tea and dinner. "The Duchess," observed a Chicago Tribune fashion writer just as all hell broke loose in Flanders, "has compiled a spring wardrobe that is composed of about 20 major ensemble units which, when divided, would make four times that many single garments. . . . It's easy to see that she has been a real help to the French fashion industries...
against the Golden Gate's 4,200, George Washington's 3,500, San Francisco-Oakland Bay's 2,310), it is the work of famed Swiss-born, 61-year-old Engineer Othmar H. Ammann (George Washington, Hell Gate, many another great bridge) and Architect Aymar Embury...
...Riviera with his delicious mother, Beauty Budd, nee Mabel Blackless. A symbolic opening scene shows young Lanny dancing in a Dalcroze festival in Germany, in 1913-the dance being an interpretation in "Eurythmics," the rage of the time, of the triumph of music over the furies of Hell in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Before the real furies set sail over Europe the following summer, Lanny visits charming upper-class friends in England and Germany, glimpses the squalor of the lower classes...