Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...column, "is too well known to dwell upon. Our friendship during 27 years has always been full of surprises. ... I have always thought Picasso's blue period to be his best until yesterday, when I went to the Grimaldi Museum. ... I had seen quite a bit of Picasso in Paris this winter. When I asked him to come to America and told him about the money he would make there, he shrugged his expressive Latin shoulders, saying, 'Elsa, I hate the sea and I hate money, and I have been working in the Museum at Antibes on what...
After its fashion, Hollywood was doing its bit to fight the high cost of living. Paddock Engineering Co., which has built almost all of California's swimming pools (50% of those in the U.S.), gravely announced a "People's Pool." Through ads in Los Angeles papers, this symbol of high living was placed within easy reach of the common man; a swimming pool could be ordered by merely sending in the tearaway coupon. The price: $2,500. By last week, 63 orders had been placed for People's Pools...
...comments on yesterday's news ("Second thoughts on Potsdam : It is a milestone in history"). He writes much as he broadcasted,* with a strong accent on emotion. Even the most devoted admirers of the late President Roosevelt will find a long entry on F.D.R.'s death a bit on the sticky side...
...Every bit as staunch as the arrangements, the Band's bass drum survived a falling Yale man last November and the men, a hectic trip to Dartmouth and a serenade off the Capitol steps at Concord. Plans are afoot for a similar stunt at Richmond next week. This afternoon, the Band is armed with a new B.U. medley and a top-secret labyrinthian war dance, designed to completely out-maneuver the visitor's attempt. Whether or not the B.U. outfit is as big-time as its partisans would make out, time will tell. Meanwhile, the Band awaits the encounter, possibly...
...course, somebody has to pay for all this. Actually, the money comes from the federal government, through the State of Massachusetts, through the Massachusetts General Hospital, through the University to the project. The set-up is a bit more complicated than that; but thanks to Dr. Allan M. Butler, professor of Pediatrics at the Medical School, it has been rolled up into a neat little package and tossed to the financially hard-pressed veteran student with no strings attached...