Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willkie was not a leader in any sense that was politically recognizable. In fact, the delegates told each other, he was politically impossible, an amateur whose rankness you could smell. Nevertheless, they went to see him, and get a nearer sniff. His small 16th floor suite at a corridor's end in the Benjamin Franklin hotel became a crazy-house, a stifling welter of political amateurs and well-wishers (bond salesmen, debutantes, business bigwigs), gawkers (clubwomen, tourists, thrill-collectors), and disgusted professionals, indignant at their offhand treatment by people who had never heard of them and who even...
...under his size 7¾ hat. Volunteer workers had opened several. And in the plush and marble Benjamin Franklin Hotel, where Candidate Taft had his elegant headquarters in the ballroom and on two additional floors. Willkie headquarters had been established in a small suite of rooms on the 16th floor. There he arrayed himself, big and burly in a blue suit, charging from one room to another, standing hour after hour answering newsmen, posing for photographers, meeting spectators, delegates, anybody. Even when he dashed out to a corner drugstore for a cheese sandwich, newsmen interviewed him as he perched...
...16th Duke of Norfolk, 27th Earl of Arundel, Premier Duke & Earl of England, turned up in a French hospital south of the Somme, having been wounded at Boulogne. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, Viscount Cowdray, grandson of multimillionaire Engineer Sir Weetman Pearson and non-playing captain of the British polo team that played in the U. S. in 1939, returned badly wounded from Flanders to have his left arm amputated in Durham Hospital. Upon hearing the news, his wife gave birth to a premature daughter...
Died. Harry Willson Watrous, 82, meticulous painter, noted for highly finished 16th-Century saints, microscopic in detail, onetime (1933) president of the National Academy of Design; in Manhattan. A practical joker, he terrified the Lake George colony in 1904 by a hippogriff-a cedar log fashioned into a sea serpent...
Chinese legend declares that Chin P'ing Mei (Metal Vase Plum-blossom) was written by a famed 16th-Century Confucian scholar as a satire on the private life of a corrupt official. The official received a presentation copy, fell dead as he finished the last of its 1,600 subtly poisoned pages. No believer in such legend, Arthur Waley, expert on Chinese literature, says the novel's authorship is doubtful, like that of China's other famed novels. He traces first mention of it to a book published around 1600, wherein Chin...