Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right. Or rather, it is away from His enemies. It has become as fashionable and as easy to laugh at the blindness of ethical relativism with C. S. Lewis, the English wit, as it used to be to laugh with H. L. Mencken at the blindness of the Bible belt. But has the tone of the laughter improved? Is there...
Lack of practice and rugged opposition proved too much for the Crimson lacrosse team which dropped two out of three contests last week in the heart of the Maryland-Delaware lacrosse belt...
Once upon a time Mary Colum was Mary Maguire, Irish, red-haired and 18. "I got on the Dublin train," she says, "in my new blue ankle-length dress, my dead mother's watch fastened to a long chain and stuck in my belt. Attached to the chain was a silver Child of Mary medal and a ... silver cross, and nobody, not even a native of central Africa, could have failed to recognize in me the typical product of a convent school...
...couple of freshmen in the musical comedy business, named Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee, and most especially with Nancy Walker in the cast, the book becomes a secondary matter. It's built around a sharply-pointed parody of Joe College on his home grounds tossing out below-the-belt punches at the fraternity system, big dumb football heroes, Big Men On the Campus, Student Council elections, and particularly at the amateur left wing. Wrapped up in these goings-on is Asa Hearthrug a naive but willing freshman, played ably enough by Billy Redfield, who finds himself torn among three variegated...
Across the U.S., loading platforms and warehouses were jampacked with marooned goods. Shippers of everything from cement to washing machines frantically called for freight cars; some were lucky to get 10% of their minimum needs. In the Midwest, grain belt farmers stared nervously at grain-choked elevators, wondered whether they would be cleared before 1947 crops came in. It was the worst freight-car shortage in 25 years...