Word: jottings
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hills of Hell. That this "neutral" news was fabricated and exaggerated did not take away one jot from the performance of Greece. The mere fact that Greece chose to oppose the Axis juggernaut defied belittling; it was magnificent...
...beginning of this year, the Students Council won another victory with the appointment of a dietitian to the Dining Hall staff. Since the beginning of this month, the dietitian has been on her job. The food has not improved a jot or a tittle...
...drums, but these few played the most intricate rhythms with wonderful precision. And when it wanted to, the Michigan Band could play softly as well as loud: during the exciting moments between touchdown and goal kick, if you noticed, it kept right on playing, double pianissimo, without sacrificing a jot of its balance or subtlety of tone...
...them, and his personal liking. Those who attract his mind are usually those who fight a brilliant kind of intellectual guerrilla warfare which their opponents call outright unscrupulous. All are New Dealers to the core-which perhaps explains Mr. Roosevelt's refusal up to now to surrender one jot of the New Deal in the interest of Defense. Yet, Harry Hopkins again excepted, the President's warm, confiding friendliness is reserved for men who are comfortably conservative, cautious, even stodgy by the standards of Mr. Roosevelt's young brilliants. Nor is this out of character: Franklin Roosevelt...
Artist Freeman never stays seated long, keeps popping up to jot down more bits of Manhattery. His drawings and paintings have the same crowded vitality that Cruikshank and Leech got into their illustrations of Dickens' London, the same knack of making ragpickers a touch romantic. Some of his canvases: Sax Sec-lion, a red-coated Negro band turning on the heat in Harlem; Chatham Square Street Fight, two stevedores sparring, while kids streak up to see the fun; Such Sweet Sorrow, a pair of drunks embracing under...