Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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In the Senate, Republicans got an unexpected ally in loudmouthed, gummy-grinned lame duck Rush Holt (Dem., W. Va.), who rose to flay New York's Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman, who (along with Henry Wallace) had suggested that the Axis powers wanted Roosevelt beaten. Lehman himself was fanning a...
Awesome to fellow zanies is Allen's ability to concoct his own jokes. Most of them depend on gagmen for their wit. Allen writes much of his show himself, decisively edits the contributions of his two assistant scripteurs. Practically unchanged this season will be the formula that carried his...
For an amateur getting experience the hard way, Nominee Willkie's Western trip began to seem perfectly planned-in an unexpected way. Last week's political errors were made in rockbound Democratic areas, where Republicans are classed with horned toads as amusing but unessential creatures. He had found...
For most Wall Streeters, that reason was not good enough. Before the unexpected dividend, Tommy shares were selling for $12.50, much too low for any stock about to pay $5.50. At that price, there were several days of abnormally active trading-200 to 2,000 shares a day, although only...
War makes unexpected bedfellows in heaven as well as on earth. Because totalitarian thinking threatens U. S. democracy as much as totalitarian force, front-rank scientists and philosophers gathered last week for an epoch-making three-day conference with outstanding churchmen-Protestants, Catholics, Jews. The place: Manhattan's Jewish...