Word: thing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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John Lewis had done more than most men to vest new powers in the Presidency; he now denounced a President who would cling to those powers ("Personal craving for power, the overweening, abnormal and selfish craving for increased power is a thing to alarm and dismay"). A genuine isolationist, he spoke from the heart on the issue most likely to do Campaigner Roosevelt immediate harm ("His motivation and his objective...
...line with press comments was Priestley's explanation of his silence. Said he in Glasgow a few days after quitting: "I've simply stopped my talks for a time because I think it's a good thing. The people get tired of hearing one voice, but if they're not tired and would like to get me back-well, I'm waiting in the wings...
...with gonorrhea, she learned that the patient had caught the disease from her husband. She sent for him forthwith, made him stand by and watch the operation. Thrice he fainted; thrice Dr. Van Hoosen called to her assistants: "Throw some water on him. . . . He's responsible for this thing and he's going to see it through...
...Bigelow was right. Gone were the grey, morgue-like walls, the drab showcases, the cloistered darkness of the old store at 37th Street. Instead, large windows, scarcely marred by crossbars, admitted beams of sunlight. Even the clerks looked a little younger. But one thing had not changed, probably never would: the Tiffany tradition of muffled, almost clandestine conservatism...
...There is the famous case where he told Bob Madry, Carolina's news bureau director, in 1937 that Andy Bershak was the greatest end he ever coached, and then, a day or two later, said the same thing to Alan Gould, then sports editor of the Associated Press, about Brud Holland, Cornell's brilliant Negro end who had a shot on the AP All-American. Then he denied making the first statement. He was going like...