Word: newspaperwoman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensed how much of the school was in him, and he stayed. But as if in revolt against his immediate past he turned back to the present, to the worlds he had neglected during his years in the Widener stacks. Two years before he had been married, to a newspaperwoman; not one of those who drinks her coffee black and eats the paper cup to prove she's no pansey, but a vibrant and gracious women whose style is as ample as his own. In love, his apprenticeship now over, he must have begun to appraise Miller's legacy...
...sensed how much of the school was in him, and he stayed. But as if in revolt against his immediate past he turned back to the present, to the words he had neglected during his years in the Widener stacks. Two years before he had been married, to a newspaperwoman; not one of those who drinks her coffee black and eats the paper cup to prove she's no pansey, but a vibrant and gracious women whose style is as ample as his own. In love, his apprenticeship now over, he must have begun to appraise Miller's legacy...
...presidency in 1940 (Willkie was nominated, and the relieved Sandburg stumped the country for Roosevelt). Item: Poet-Patriarchs Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg are barely on speaking terms. Item : one of Sandburg's most widely quoted statements was put in his mouth by an imaginative Moline, Ill., newspaperwoman, who asked him, "Would you say that slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work?" "Yes," said Sandburg...
Falling Petals. Said the camel driver to a newspaperwoman: "Each time you smile, petals fall out." Standing on the floor of the U.S. Senate, he observed: "When a lot of minds are applied to a problem, you get a better solution than when one mind is applied to a problem.'' In the Lincoln Memorial, gazing up at the statue of Abraham Lincoln, he said: "When a person sacrifices his life for his country, the country appreciates his services and makes a monument like this that will last forever." Wherever he went in his week's journey, from...