Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A good many Faculty members will lose sleep between the third and sixth of February. The third is the last day of the final examination period, and, according to a preliminary announcement handed to the Faculty last week, all "Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 9" courses will hold examinations on...
At war's end, when foggy hope of cooperation between the democracies and Communism swirled everywhere, labor unions of 56 nations got together in Paris and set up the World Federation of Trade Unions. The organization included Soviet Russia's state-run "unions," big Communist-infiltrated unions like...
Within the hour, NBC switchboards throughout the country were jammed with frantic phone calls from children wanting verification of the news. Next day, the Chicago Sun-Times, which had had its share of calls, headlined: "Children: Santa Has NOT Been Shot." Penitent NBC prefaced its next day's News...
Died. Maria Ouspenskaya, 73, wizened, rasp-voiced supporting actress of stage & screen (Love Affair, The Rains Came, King's Row); of second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the...
But midway through Pleasure Dome in an essay on Insuranceman-Poet Wallace Stevens, Frankenberg suddenly takes a deep dive into little-magazine jargon, while the eager reader waits expectantly on the bridge between prose and poetry. Author and reader never quite meet again, and from here on, if the reader...