Word: blankness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany's Soviet-occupied zone, one morning last week, a Dr. Becker settled himself at his big desk to open his mail. On top of the pile was a blank sheet, marked with a single big F. That same day, in the seaside town of Rostock, the sidewalks were strewn with Fs torn from the newspapers. In Leipzig, Weimar, Potsdam and the Soviet sector of Berlin, white, chalked Fs appeared on the shells of bombed-out buildings. The F stood for Freiheit-freedom from Soviet terror...
...ended his Long Island vacation by returning to New York and Zoe. On their way to meet his neighbors, the Cullens, for dinner at the Grillparzer, they stopped at Richard's office to open That Man's manuscript-only to find that it contained a stack of blank paper with a seven-word title. Zoe was worried when Richard murmured, "So all my life is blank pages," but they went...
...Stars Look Down. When Goethe was born in Frankfurt in 1749, German music was already entering its day of unparalleled glory (Bach, Handel and Haydn were living, Mozart and Beethoven were soon to come); by comparison, German poetry and drama were blank pages. "Had I been born an Englishman," Goethe once confessed, "and had all those numerous masterpieces (of Shakespeare's) been brought before me ... they would have overpowered me, and I should not have known what...
Largely as a promotion stunt for the new strip, the newspaper ran a voting blank asking SHALL WE SACK THE SHMOOS? Results of the poll last week swept the Shmoos out of Britain and back into the Valley of the Shmoon. For the Shmoo: 3,750. Against the Shmoo: 7,552. Admitted the Pic: "We dropped a brick. We pulled a boner, made a howler, a bloomer." For the benefit of true-blue Shmoo-lovers, the newspaper ran a synopsis of the unpublished part of Capp's Shmoo sequence. It also printed a perplexed farewell: "Critics have called...
Beauty & Clarification. Gossip columnists from Paris to Los Angeles chattered excitedly. Would Ingrid get a divorce? A newsman who asked her point-blank if it was love quoted her as saying: "We have wanted to keep it quiet...