Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there isn't any doubt about it that Councillor Mickey Sullivan has a wonderful nose for publicity. Any dime-size ward politician who can get into the New York Times and on top of that wangle his way into its hallowed editorial columns has proved his ability to everyone's satisfaction. Obviously the man gets a great boot out of reading a blaring headline about himself--and as a general rule, most people wouldn't deny him his fun. He makes almost as good reading as the latest love cult investigation in Swampscott...
...city of Houston has a law forbidding the raising of pigeons in order to insure that householders' wells will not be contaminated by droppings. Cambridge isn't the only town with ridiculous, unenforceable laws. But that isn't much of an excuse for deliberately writing such laws into the books. To do so means to mock the whole system of rule by law. Perhaps Mickey knew that his little brain-child was a bastard, that it would be duly declared unconstitutional after blocking up the proceedings of the courts for several months, that it could never be enforced...
...There isn't a great, deal that can be said for the twelve other solous who gave their considered approval and dragged after Mickey like the tail after a kite. One can laugh at Mickey because he has his points, but in the face of the rest one can only wilt and wonder. Professor Chafee over at the Law School summed up the whole case when he stated: "This is the best argument offered thus far for Plan...
...Isn't war awful, sir?" a bluejacket on the Tuscaloosa asked Captain Daehne as they watched the Columbus blaze...
...page from the Gutenberg Bible, a promissory note for $100,000 made out to E. L. Doheny and signed by Ex-Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall, announced with pride her purchase for $15,000 of the original manuscript of Johannes Brahms's First Symphony. Said she: "Isn't it thrilling...