Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that the metaphor was used by some other public speaker during the great agitation led by my father round about 1920. His only connection with the metaphor was to deplore the use of such language even to express a truth. On a pure point of fact it is necessary to emphasize that Gandhi was one of the most refined persons in the world, refined in his scanty dress, in his speech, in his manners. There are many small and fine points about Gandhi on which I would always have something or other to say, if only...
Personal Traits. Of average size (5 ft. 8 in.; 165 Ibs.). His most pronounced facial characteristics are his famed brush mustache and his round, brown eyes. His most characteristic gesture when making a speech: emphasizing a point by rising on his toes, leaning forward, pointing his index finger and popping his eyes. He favors dark, conservative suits, hates to be photographed in his shirtsleeves (he thinks it undignified) or with his mouth open (his front teeth are slightly parted). He speaks in deep, deliberate tones, uses an occasional gentlemanly damn...
...Belfast, a 110-lb. Irishman named Rinty Monaghan, who trains on goats' milk, became the world's flyweight boxing king. He creamed Jackie Paterson, a Scotsman, in the seventh round and Paterson sagged to the floor. As he was being counted out, Rinty did an enthusiastic jig in his corner, then led the crowd in singing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. The celebration continued at Rinty's home until a wellwisher, while demonstrating "how I would have handled Paterson," accidentally knocked the new champion cold...
...Madison Square Garden, a 17-year-old Chicago cook named Dick Guerrero forgot to duck in the second round and was knocked clear out of the ring. Guerrero climbed back in, talked the referee out of stopping the fight. He then battled his way to the Golden Gloves welterweight championship. The heavyweight winner: 20-year-old Coley Wallace of Harlem, who looks like Joe Louis but doesn't fight as well; he was booed after winning...
Sheets is up at 7 every morning, to start a round of activity which permits no time for dreaming. In one day he may drive into Claremont for a meeting of the City Planning Commission, confer with his partner (he is also an architect) about the design of a new church or country club, teach a class at Scripps College (where he heads the nine-man art department), and paint a picture. Evenings-unless by chance he has been asked to make a speech on foreign affairs-he devotes to his wife and four children and to the guests they...