Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Uncle Gyko "was getting all his dope free from the theosophy-philosophy-astrology-and-miscellaneous shelf at the Public Library." He profoundly mistrusted Aram's mentor, Lionel Strongfort. But Strongfort and Yoga together only got Aram a bad last place in the 50-yard dash. So Gyko became again "one of the boys around town, drinking, staying up all hours, and following the women...
Thomas H. Eliot of Cambridge, Democrat, 33, replaced baggy, antique Republican Robert Luce, chief of Luce's Press Clipping Bureau. Eliot, handsome, dark, wavy-haired, erudite as his grandfather's Five-Foot-Shelf, once rowed for Harvard, was a Boston Globe reporter, still likes to write Letters To The Editor. Eliot co-authored the present Social Security Act, was New England Wage-Hour Administrator when he decided to run. He and his wife made a house-to-house campaign...
Mort Waldstein and Bill Brown will have to plug the hole left at the bucking role when a Princeton game charley horse put the Crimson captain on the shelf. MacKinney will play as much as he can Saturday at left end, with Bill Barnes spelling him off. The versatile Chapel Hill Junior will not be used at quarterback unless George Helden is hurt...
...when he might well be exploring the overtures of Gluck and Handel, and why such a conscientious musician as Koussevitzky will in concert after concert stick to Sibelins's first two symphonics, the weakest of them all, and let the greatest, the Sixth and Seventh, gather dust on a shelf...
Redhaired, blue-eyed Bruce Barton, 54-year-old advertising tycoon, made millions selling Americans on reading (Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf); on clean collars (Cluett-Peabody collar ads); on shaving (Gillette); on working (Alexander Hamilton Institute); on Jesus and the Bible (The Man Nobody Knows, The Book Nobody Knows). Barton, a born preacher and sloganeer, a superb luncheon-club speaker, son of a Tennessee clergyman, implemented his creed of service by fighting his way into Congress in 1938 as an amateur from Manhattan's only Republican district-the Silk-Stocking Seventeenth, compounded of Park Avenue and nearby...