Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prices; across-the-board rationing; higher taxes for everyone; no Government spending on such luxuries as social legislation. That would bring lower prices at the corner grocery. It would also mean lower wages, lower profits, and lower farm income. Whether or not the U.S. people were willing to swallow such bitter medicine, neither political party would'dare prescribe it in an election year...
Grandfather's oldest son was another Henry-redheaded "Harry," who taught at Iowa State Agricultural College and became Secretary of Agriculture under Harding and Coolidge. Harry's wife, interested in genealogy, dug up the Wallace family coat of arms. It displayed an ostrich about to swallow a horseshoe. The motto: Sperandum est (free translation: Somewhere, the sun is shining...
...there), publishers and their wives, and some journalistic trained seals. Even when the balloting started, many newsmen preferred to watch from the press lounge on the second floor, where three television sets, air conditioning and gallons of free beer (courtesy of the Pennsylvania Railroad) made the proceedings easier to swallow-and to follow (see TELEVISION...
...this were no more than a mere thriller, it would be quibbling to point out that a few patches are hard to swallow. One agent manages to decode a message while sitting in the back seat of a moving auto, at night. After betraying his government, Gouzenko seems astonished to hear what will happen to his family and his wife's (Gene Tierney), although he has lived in Soviet Russia most of his life, and is a seasoned professional agent. His reasons for changing sides are also rather thinly explored ; and some of the top spies are such blatant...
...face as dismal as a bust of Dante . . . dinner at 3 p.m. ... I eat too quick . . . Commenced reading . . . don't like Dickens-don't know why ... I must read Jane Eyre . . . Played a little on the piano . . . badly out of tune . . . Sardines [for supper] . . . could scarcely swallow them . . . This is Sunday ... I will read the new version of the Bible . . . Encyclopedia Britannica [steadies] my nerves ... To bed early . . . shut my eyes and imagine a terraced abyss, each terrace occupied by a beautiful maiden [but I] only saw [my wife] and Mamma . . . Sleep...