Word: 1840s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embittered Italians have come to regard the West's unredeemed pledge as no more than a cynical campaign trick. That feeling hurt De Gasperi in last month's election. Trieste is a symbol as compelling as reunification to Germans, or 54-40 to Americans of the 1840s. To Italians the word packs an emotional wallop out of all proportion to its economic importance...
When the French Poet Gérard de Nerval was asked why he walked a lobster on a leash down a Paris boulevard one day in the 1840s, he replied: "He knows the secrets of the sea." Until very modern times, most of the sea's secrets have been known only to the sea's inhabitants, and they never tell. In the last two decades, however, a new species has joined the finny tribe: the men-fish, who, with flippers on their feet and an air tank on their backs, go down into the waters and come back to tell what...
Family & Early Years: Born in Portland, Ore. of Western pioneer stock (his grandfather came to Oregon for the Hudson's Bay Co. in the 1840s). He was christened James Douglas, but dropped James when he was a youth. Father was a carpenter and young McKay quit high school to help with the family income. He delivered papers, drove a butcher wagon, worked as an office boy for the Union Pacific, ran a small laundry. Worked his way through Oregon State, where he concentrated on agriculture. In 1920 went to work as auto salesman, within two years was sales manager...
...real Tom Sawyer was very like the real Mark Twain, a redheaded little river rascal named Sam Clemens, with a gleam in his eye and a snake in his pocket, who lived in the drowsy Mississippi River town of Hannibal, Mo. in the 1840s. In Sam Clemens of Hannibal, the story of Sam's Great American Boyhood is told for the first time in full detail by the late Dixon Wecter, editor of the still unpublished* Mark Twain Papers...
...Lieut. Governor Joel Hayden saw the original statue while on a trip to Europe in the 1840s, had a bronze copy made and set up on the front lawn of his estate. According to one version of the story, his brother-in-law talked him into donating Sabrina to Amherst at a time when the college was beautifying its campus. Another version: when Hayden's God-fearing constituents objected to such a display of nudity in front of his mansion, he made a politician's decision that pleased both college and constituency...