Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lank, soft-spoken Californian named Truman Bailey could take the commission's bows. Back in 1942 he had found that the only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the best teakwood and tapa cloth out of Java and Oceania, knew exactly what to do: hit out for the sources of pre-Columbian handicrafts and discover the lost techniques...
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Circus, which had been stuck in New York during the coal strike, got stuck again-this time in Boston, while a baby giraffe was born in a tent. In Lancaster, Pa., city firemen were routed out at 4:30 a.m., had to couple up long hoses to water a trainload of 2,000 thirsty hogs. There was chicken trouble, too-hundreds of automatic incubators were hatching thousands of eggs every hour. Unable to ship the new arrivals, owners gloomily planned mass drownings...
...best of which was his Voice of the People letters column, drawing more than 50,000 letters a year. He thought up comic strips whose casts became national characters: The Gumps (his mother coined the name), Dick Tracy, Winnie Winkle, Terry and the Pirates, Smitty (whose boss, Mr. Bailey, was J.M.P. himself...
Celebrities from all corners of the nation are gathering for the battle, with late arrivals including President Truman, Tommy Manville, Rose La Rose, Earl Wilson, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, J. Barnuman Bailey, and Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Preparations to hold all the spectators are still proceeding at the Stadium; temporary cheering stands with built-in flags are going up through the night...
...Debate Council met last night to elect Monree S. Singer '47 as president, Ray A. Goldberg '48 as vice-president, William P. D. Bailey '46 as corresponding secretary, Richard H. Feinsinger '49 as home secretary, and Elton McNeil '49 as publicity manager...