Word: booths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Booth Tarkington, 75-year-old, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist and connoisseur of art, who summers at Kennebunkport, Me., attacked the Kennebunkport post office mural, an old WPA project depicting bulgy bathers on a beach. Author Tarkington regarded the work as "painful to Kennebunkport's old timers. Why, Kennebunkport doesn't even have a bathing beach...
...will be sitting at a table or in a booth having a highball. Before long, he mentions his wife or sweetheart in New Jersey or someplace. He misses her very much. He doesn't know what to do. And then, before you know it, he says, 'We're all human, aren't we?' And when you refuse, he becomes bitter and abusive. . . . Well, it's getting to the point where I won't go out any more...
Neither Morley nor Fay knew what famous British agitator (John Wilkes) was half of an American city (WilkesBarre) and two-thirds of an American murderer (John Wilkes Booth). But the U.S. team correctly identified "The Tate" (London art gallery), "The Reform" (political club), and "Bart's" (St. Bartholomew's Hospital...
Painter Rattner's prizewinner was Kiosk, a near-abstraction in greens, yellows and a touch of purple. A Philadelphia reporter, struggling to find the metropolitan newsdealer peering from his booth window, framed by magazines and newspapers, called Kiosk a "what-is-it." Sniffed the New York Times's assured Edward Alden Jewell: "unqualifiedly the poorest thing by Abraham Rattner that I have ever seen...
...called "backside") is inaccessible to bombardment from the earth. To blast these regions I have designed a cannon combining the better features of a trench mortar and a slow curve. Consisting of a curved barrel mounted on a base equipped with weather bureau, barracks, soda fountain and bond booth, its aim and fire power is controlled by the formula given on the enclosed drawing...