Word: addison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navigator Addison Thompson had decided to catch up on his sleep. The weather was too bad for star shots, and he had never thought of a radio fix. He slept for about eight hours. When he woke, he found the second flight engineer curled up cozily under his navigation table and the Sky Queen past the point of no-return...
Arthur Greenwood's resignation was long overdue. Attlee is expected to do more firing soon. Pink old Lord Addison, whose white hair looks like the blob of whipped cream on a strawberry sundae, is expected to be dumped from his Commonwealth relations job. A. V. Alexander may be shifted to make way for a more vigorous man in the Defense Ministry...
Withdrawal. In Addison± Mich., a man entered the Addison State Savings Bank, patiently waited more than half an hour for his turn, finally got to the teller, pulled a gun, got away with...
...William Addison Dwiggins, free-lance designer and typographical adviser of Hingham, Mass., America's preeminent designer of type faces (Caledonia, Electra, Metro and others), redesigner of periodicals (Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Century, Scribners, The Yale Review, American Mercury) book designer (A. A. Knopf, Harper Brothers, Yale University Press, Random House. The Limited Editions Club, Riverside Press, William E. Rudge, Harvard University). Master of Arts. Citation: "Typographical designer whose skill and creative imagination have left a lasting impress on the pages of our time...
...damage someone else's racket (polite English: vested interest), that they never manage to say anything genuine at all. Criticism, literary, music, etc., is largely a farce since the good old English full-throated invective has been driven underground by the lawyers. Shades of Steele, Addison, and Junius...