Word: whiting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...diva by taking the name Lilypons. The full flowering of this pun occurred when Lily Pons sang to the lily ponds, while politicos, from Maryland's Governor on down, listened in rapture. Last week at the Star-Spangled Ball, a big Manhattan benefit for the William Allen White Committee, Lily Pons it was who sang the Star-Spangled Banner...
...prep-school existence. On their campus are no priests or monks; 77% of them have gone on to non-Catholic colleges. Headmaster Hume (known to Canterburians as "the Doc") makes them study hard (eight classes a day). Each afternoon a Canterburian puts on a dark blue or grey suit, white shirt and black shoes (Eton collars and patent-leather pumps were discarded about ten years ago) for tea. Canterbury boys get no demerits, but for good behavior they get two extra days off at Christmas and Easter vacations. Few Canterburians misbehave, for few care to provoke Dr. Hume...
...showed Franklin Roosevelt as a hockey goalie leaving his goal undefended to skate on Europe's thin ice. In other issues recently Commentator has denounced Dorothy Thompson, H. V. Kaltenborn (a onetime Commentator editor), Playwright Robert Sherwood, Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, Walter Lippmann, William Allen White, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, and PM's backer Marshall Field III as "Internationalists" conspiring to force the U. S. into...
...Foolishness (by Paul Vincent Carroll, produced by John Golden) is another misty Irish play, by the author of The White Steed and Shadow and Substance. Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers-a farmer, a scholar, a Communist fighter. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit. It is suggested that she represents Ireland itself. The author may have meant this or something else, but his drama is as vague and uncrystallized as the moonbeams that flood one of the scenes. Sally...
...winter time. He had a large nose, deeply indentured cheeks, an exaggeratedly erect carriage. His walk was peculiar: legs stiff, knees high, feet thrown toward the outside and brought down hard on each heel-a modified civilian goose step. He usually wore high brown shoes of English make, white shirts with starched bosoms and cuffs. His voice (deep, resonant, deliberate) and demeanor were those of a parson...