Word: attics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Creaky-Greeky Raymond Duncan (expatriate Paris-dwelling brother of the late Isadora Duncan), who so admires Attic culture that he wears a homespun chlamys (tunic) and sandals in all weather and all company, announced to Paris' Left Bank that he gave not one Hellenic hoot for France's war, said he would carry on as usual his courses in antique cloth-weaving, basketmaking, and rhythmics...
...Sargent keeps himself informed by prodigious reading: 300 books a year, 150 periodicals, twelve confidential news letters. The attic of his ancient white farmhouse in Brookline, Mass, is packed with ten tons of reading matter, his garage with 20 tons more. He goes to his Boston office only three afternoons a week, works constantly at home. He seldom answers the telephone, sometimes lets it ring for hours. He keeps two secretaries busy clipping, summarizing and filing everything suspected of being propaganda...
Sandburg bought this place eleven years ago, about the time he started work on The War Years, the second part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. In the attic he put a stove, a cot, a few chairs and a lot of book shelves. Near a corner window he put his typewriter on an old box whose height suited him. He liked to tell people that if Grant and those fellows could run their war from cracker boxes, a cracker box was good enough for him. This attic and a room on the second floor called the Lincoln Room came...
Someone had apparently planted a high explosive bomb within, or in the attic above, the hall's central pillar. The explosion toppled the pillar, brought the ceiling down on the assembled Nazis' heads. Seven (including Maria Henle) were killed, 63 injured. Had the Führer stayed even for one glass of his special 1.0 beer, history might have taken a new course...
...Macmillan ($3.50). The Journal of Maud Rittenhouse, beginning in 1881 when she was the smartest and (nearly) the prettiest girl in high school in Cairo, Ill. What Maud confided to her leather-bound journal during the next 14 years makes as fascinating reading as was ever found in an attic...