Word: forenoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Saud and the lion cubs of Hussein [Abdullah's father] are one hand whose bonds in Allah will never be dissevered . . . They are the roaring lions and the suns at forenoon . . . Palestine is a bloody finger whose illness may be cured by resolution . . . Neither the Security Council nor falling bombs nor fire nor steel can dissuade us . . . We shield ourselves with Allah and the Koran...
Wrong Guesser. In 24 years of reporting, including stints for Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror, "Aunt Geneviève" has hung up a few scoops, and a record array of wrong guesses. Her daily routine includes interviews with diplomats every forenoon, and phone calls to "well-informed friends" in London and Geneva every evening. In her elegant Right Bank apartment, she has three telephone lines and a phone in every room...
...Idle Hands. A man who hates to know the time of day (it is always later than he thinks), Caniff gets to his studio late in the forenoon, spends his daylight hours writing with his right hand, drawing and drinking coffee with his left. "It's hell being your own master," he says. "You work a 40-hour day instead of a 40-hour week." His pretty blonde wife, Esther-he calls her Bunny-brings the coffee, gets the meals and keeps guests from gumming up the production line. Slim, slack-clad Bunny Caniff doesn't have much...
Parade on Main Street. By early forenoon 2,500 people had crowded into town and Doc MacKinnon was standing in a reviewing stand watching 450 of his "babies" march past, with stork-decorated floats, and a band. After that he was presented with a shiny 1946 Ford, and led before a microphone...
Bowen breakfasted at 7, Houghton and Stuart at 9. Stuart spent the forenoon writing on his pet subject: New Testament criticism. At lunch all three took turns reading aloud the German war communiques from the English edition of Osaka Mainichi. High point of the day was "cocktail hour," when the three met to re-chew the morsels of news they had read at lunch. Every night Houghton and Stuart played anagrams-altogether 1,500 games. (Dr. Houghton wrote a book on anagrams which should be the definitive work...