Word: angularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some have created work that may have more lasting value than some of their more successful contemporaries': John Wheelwright's granite-honest poems of moral and spiritual struggle; William Carlos Williams' angular free verse written between his rounds as a New Jersey physician. For most of Spearhead's contributors, however, experimentalism has become an end in itself, a sort of perpetual and meaningless joy ride...
...went back to St. Paul's as a teacher-an angular, inarticulate man who reminded his students of Lincoln. But when World War I began he crammed his air training into three days, served in France as a combat aviator. He was to be a squadron commander, came home unscathed-although he had crashed seven times-and settled down in Concord to begin a political career...
...Thompson had been writing music for Hollywood musicals for years, and auditioning her own songs. M-G-M Producer Arthur Freed would say: "Kay, you sang that great. You are terrific. Now, who will we get to sing it?" No candy-box beauty, lean, angular Kay Thompson was simply one of the well-paid but subsidiary hirelings that some Hollywoodians call "movie trash." Last week, movie trash had become nightclub treasure...
...next day he and everybody else got a surprise. In the middle of a casual interview, amiable, angular Senator Saltonstall told newsmen that he was not really a presidential candidate; all he wanted to be was Massachusetts' best senator. Then he ticked off his own list of "leading candidates." Tom Dewey was No. 1. The others, in Saltonstall's order: Warren, Taft, Stassen, Eisenhower, and Speaker Joe Martin. That did not mean that Saltonstall was out as a New England favorite, or that he had given Dewey his blessing. But Farmer Tom left Springfield in a good mood...
...foot which Young Henry put in the soil last week also came down hard on the neck of an angular Irish inventor named Harry Ferguson. In 1939, Ferguson, who had perfected a hydraulic lift device to keep tractors from turning over when the plow hit obstructions, became old Henry Ford's "only partner." Ford had stopped making his Fordson tractor in the '20s when it lost money. But for Ferguson, Ford made 306,181 tractors, this time with the Ferguson lift. They were sold exclusively by Ferguson, Inc., which relied heavily on Ford dealers...