Word: ace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boxer, Rocky Graziano is a joke, but he has the top two requisites to ring fame & fortune - a paralyzing punch, an iron jaw. His 155 lbs. ace mounted on a sturdy pair of legs that would never per form fancy ring steps. He mauls in on an opponent, wide-legged, carrying his left dangerously low; but he punches fast, savagely, substituting power and speed for a better boxer's polished skill...
...always perturbing somebody. During the war it was U.S. brass hats and the Japanese Empire indifferently, though in different ways. But carefree Marine Ace Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington never caused himself any perturbations. Two months ago he gave himself a new chance to feel qualms by becoming violently enamored of a blond ex-movie actress named Mrs. Frances Baker. This might well have disturbed a lesser man-for until he met Frances, he had been under the impression that he was about to marry a Mrs. Lucy Malcolmson. But Pappy resigned himself happily to the new turn of events...
...press, which dotes on a hero's true love, hailed Mrs. Malcomson as a modern-day Penelope. Reported the New York Daily News: ACE BOYINGTON TO WED GIRL OF "BLUE YONDER" DREAMS...
Goateed, greying, ace Soviet diplomat Jacob Surits has a habit of popping up in key spots. He was at Geneva in 1939 when the League of Nations prepared to expel Russia for the war with Finland. As Soviet Ambassador to France in 1940, Surits was declared persona non grata for cabling home harsh criticism of "Anglo-French warmongers." Last week the U.S.S.R. had named him their first Ambassador to Brazil, where the Communists had rolled up an unexpected 600,000-odd votes in the recent elections...
...Tristan and Iseult are nearer to human than heroic size. Iseult the Fair has a whole bag of tricks up her flowing sleeves. Tristan is probably the most versatile hero of legendary history: he is not only death to dragons, but a first-rate harpist and singer and an ace huntsman and seaman. He is, notes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "the Admirable Crichton of medieval romance [and] it must be regretfully admitted that he is also a most accomplished liar...