Word: alp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publishers call The Eye of God (the name of the local mountain) a novel. It isn't. Anecdotes don't make a novel any more than edelweiss make an alp; but when Bemelmans does the picking, they make a bright nosegay...
...Democratic machine brought out the voters," he said, "but they voted American Labor Party." To illustrate his point he cited the fact that the 44 percent turnout, high for a special election, included more than half of the eligible Democratic vote and less than half of the ALP roster...
...York City the American Labor Party-without whose votes the Democrats cannot hope to carry the state-gave a cocktail party for the faithful to meet Jim Mead and Herbert Lehman (the ALP as well as the Democratic candidates for governor and Senator). Jim Mead sent regrets. Herbert Lehman showed up, but ducked any discussion of the Wallace affair. Many an ALPman was deep in defeatism...
...Frank Buchman, sexagenarian Oxford Group leader who returned to England last spring after seven years' absence, was now reported sitting on an Alp. The perch: Switzerland's sky-high Caux. The shelter: a former luxury hotel. Buchmanites had bought it and were aswarm there for a big postwar drive. Reported one of them happily: "The people of the neighborhood seem pleased...
While France is falling, Marion climbs a difficult Alp (the novel is told in flashbacks from the climb) and falls down a crevasse. At this point the reader feels that it's about time: she has run through most of the personal and historical crises possible in her time, vividly, rather flamboyantly, never mawkishly, and,, all told, she has had. and provided, a very good time indeed...