Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...prove his belief, or to show it off, he adopted five-month-old Baby Jean Gauntt, installed her in the mansion with a nurse, and put her on a meatless diet surrounded by nothing but "good." Immortality for Baby Jean was in the bag, said he. For some strange reason the tabloids took...
Instead of the expected Blitzkrieg knockout, Louis shuffled as if his mind was on his Christmas shopping. He landed a few good punches, but for every one he landed, he missed two. When the bell rang for the sixth round, McCoy, for no good reason except that his left eye was swollen shut, remained in his corner...
...Reason for this was plain. Despite the production boom, nothing Business really wanted had been achieved. Taxes, far from easing, were made tougher by an excess-profits tax and likely to grow more so. Government spending was multiplied; the 76th Congress appropriated more than $17 billions. Interest rates on capital continued to fall. The National Labor Relations Board underwent a personnel shakeup, but Wagner Act modification was less likely than ever. Government regulation in general, previously little more than a list of "Don'ts," began to turn into positive control. Every well-editorialized reason why Business should hold back...
...Skap" stuck to her guns. "The Paris designer is free," said she, expressing annoyance at questions implying a new order in France. Some fashion experts began talking of "Skap's" Italian origin. They saw no other logical reason for her leaving a lucrative U. S. perfume business and a personable U. S. citizen daughter (Greenwich Village-born, British-schooled "Gogo") for a questionable future "helping her former employes in Paris...
...Steele to Mary Scurlock (1707): ". . . You must give me either a fan, a mask or a glove you have worn, or I cannot live. . . ." Biographer James Boswell to Isabella de Zuylen (1764): "You have fine talents of one kind; but are you deficient in others? Do you think your reason is as distinguished as your imagination? Believe me, Zelide, it is not. Believe me and endeavor to improve. . . ." (She rejected him.) Field Marshal Gebhard von Bliicher to one Frau von S. (1795): "I can't enter upon any marriage which does not make provision...