Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certain name makes your temperature behave like a see-saw; when you stop to chat with fond mothers, cuddle new-born babes and become interested in Weatena, Farina and Pablum; when you desert the Lone Ranger for Baby Snooks and Uncle Don; when you take to eating angel food cake, passion fruit sundaes and lover's delights; when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when you open a Christmas Club Savings account; when you hum "Oh, Promise Me" before going to bed, and "Here Comes The Bride" upon getting up in the morning; when...
...Angel. In his middle 40s, João Alberto is tallish, slender. A nervous tic periodically distorts his face. His kindly, scholarly bearing does not match his violent past or his present push. Brazilians tell some cynical tales about his appetite for money, and they remember his successful but intensely unpopular term as Federal Interventor in the rebellious State of São Paulo. He plays the piano beautifully, has almost memorized his favorite book, The Arabian Nights. He speaks English, is pro-American, has a son in the U.S. Air Forces. Among his pals: Sumner Welles and Carmen Miranda...
...suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward...
...higher than an "angel's footstool," is frigid, closemouthed COMINCH Ernest J. King, who was eligible for retirement last year but was retained in his post by the President. Last week he celebrated his 65th birthday. The only other men in the Navy who wear an admiral's four stars on active line duty: > White-haired, canny Chester W. Nimitz, 58, boss in the Pacific; shaggy, bull-tongued William Frederick Halsey Jr., 61, commander of the South Pacific and the only one of the full admirals besides King himself who is a naval aviator; ruddy, meticulous Harold...
...Walsh Girls has been more highly praised than almost any first novel since Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Tess Slesinger's The Unpossessed. It deserves most of the good words given it. It suffers from the same bleak self-minimization that wounds the characters in the story and the town they live in, and the country of which it is part. Just as Lydia seems doomed to regard her life as dreary even when plainly it is not, so Author Janeway ruthlessly stamps out excitement and unexpected humor, like Miss Lydia keeping order in her classroom...