Word: black
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arnold. Another Judas Iscariot. Another Judge Manton, who was in high places and was convicted right here in this building . . .* Someone has said that roses that fester stink worse than weeds. A brilliant man like this man, who betrays his trust, stinks. Inside that smiling face is a heart black and cancerous. He is a traitor...
Charles Meryon is not a familiar name in art, but it stands for some of the most highly prized etchings ever made. A wizened little man with a black beard and distrustful eye, Meryon 100 years ago set himself the task of putting the people and particularly the architecture of Paris onto copper. A few clear-seeing critics, including Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire, praised him to the skies. Meryon brushed aside the praise. He was a perfectionist and he brought no more than a dozen of his meticulously etched plates to the standard that he demanded of himself...
Prominences. Other new instruments, which black out the sun's bright disc, leaving only the atmosphere around it, show even more startling things. The surface of the sun, even far from the "mountains," is not smooth. It is covered with tiny "spicules" that jet up suddenly. Tiny only "in the solar sense," they are several hundred miles in diameter and 5,000 to 10,000 miles high. They lick up from the surface and fade away in an average of about five minutes...
...organ works is a standard text; his biography of Bach has never been surpassed. He is a doctor of medicine whose 36 years of selfless pioneering as a missionary to the natives of French Equatorial Africa are a bright highlight in the relations between the white race and the black. He is a philosopher who, like Spengler and Toynbee, has thought deeply about the crisis of Western culture. He is a Protestant minister and biblical scholar whose historical criticism of the New Testament, early in this century, turned out to be a theological blockbuster. Above...
Divorced. John Knudsen ("Jack") Northrop, 53, aircraft builder (the Black Widow, the Fly ing-Wing): by Inez Harmer Northrop, fiftyish; after 31 years of marriage, three children; in Pasadena, Calif...