Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They have descended to vicious mudslinging. Abraham Lincoln was once described as "a horrid-looking wretch . . . sooty and scoundrelly in aspect, a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse swapper and the night man." Andrew Jackson's mother was accused of being "a common prostitute, brought to this country by British soldiers...
...shmoo was discovered by Al Capp's Li'l Abner. When, last month, he began to hear strange music which sounded like "shmoooooooooooo!", his eager pursuit of the lilting sound was barred by an amazon of fierce and busty aspect. ("Ah sees to it," said she, "that th' shmoon don't come over th' mount'in.") Nevertheless, Li'l Abner penetrated into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, where a sage clad only in his own beard, called Old Man Mose, frantically explained the shmoo situation to the intruder. "Shmoos...
...Jovial Man. The musical comedy aspect of the affair reached its climax at week's end when Consul General Lomakin sailed for home on the Swedish American Line steamship Stockholm. He waved to photographers with the jovial air of a man who might be seeing them again. (He can claim re-entry because he is a member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Freedom of Information and of the Press.) Before sailing, he told a steamship official that he was to become Andrei Gromyko's adviser at the U.N. General Assembly in Paris...
Britain's George Millar, whose autobiographical novel Horned Pigeon (TIME, June 10, 1946) was one of the few intelligent consequences of World War II, describes himself as "a weedy young man of slightly effeminate aspect"-neglecting to add that his war record won him the British Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross, the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre. With the same misleading modesty he insists that he is merely a "landsman"-but his new book is all about a voyage he made in his 31-ton ketch Truant two years ago, from England to Greece...
...most of TIME's staff, the convention produced only one entirely new aspect: television. LIFE and the National Broadcasting Company having joined forces to report the convention via television, TIME's reporters made a number of appearances before the cameras to interview candidates and politicians, and to report on fast-breaking maneuvers. Frank McNaughton, TIME's Congressional correspondent, who knows about as many politicians intimately as a newsman can, made so many appearances before the television cameras that he contracted what he called "video sunburn" - from the pancake makeup they smeared on his face each time...