Word: smitten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greetings from the Stork. When war broke out, Lisa and Fernand came to the U.S. Soon after her first pictures appeared in U.S. magazines, smitten strangers sent her presents, including a bottle of champagne from Stork Club Impresario Sherman Billingsley, whom she has never met. She recalls, "I thought: what a strange country this is. Maybe I'd better go home now." Today, Lisa works an average of 20 hours a week, half on advertising and half on magazine fashion illustrations, which pay less than advertising pictures ($12.50-$15) but carry prestige. Lisa averages about $500 a week, could...
Retired National League Umpire Bill Klem, 75, smitten by his share of oaths and pop bottles in almost 50 years of calling decisions, was on the receiving end of a new kind of demonstration. At a Polo Grounds ceremony arranged by baseball writers, damp-eyed Bill Klem caught a broadside of cheers and gifts from fans, players and managers...
...Waiting. Louis Johnson did not sulk for long. He simply learned another lesson: how to wait. He turned down a scattering of minor job offers from a conscience-smitten Franklin Roosevelt, still holding out for the War Department or nothing. Finally he took a wartime lend-lease mission to India, from which he shortly returned with Delhi belly and another manuscript which "can never be published," he says, "as long as Winston Churchill is still alive...
...behind these smiling faces and smitten backs were sullen tempers that threatened to ignite a partisan hotfoot and turn the session into a bitter political battlefield (see cut). Southern Senators had agreed on the strategy to be used against any civil-rights program-Harry Truman's or the Republicans': filibuster at the first show of a bill. Most Republicans, taking their cue from noncommittal Tom Dewey, were waiting for the reaction to Harry Truman's message to Congress; but among them there was also heady talk of forcing a swift adjournment...
This booster's boast was not uttered by a Kansas Citian but by a visiting French novelist. When Andre Maurois, in 1946, was teaching a course in biography at the University of Kansas City, he was smitten with Kansas City's beauty. "Who in Europe, or in America for that matter," he asked, "knows that Kansas City is one of the loveliest cities on earth...