Word: boots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guatemala, the women of all classes know an ancient secret learned from the Indians: an herbal tea made from ixbut (rhymes with fish-boot) increases the flow of mother's milk...
...elected to Parliament as one of the ten "cultural representatives" provided for in the new constitution. Says he, with scientific understatement: "After two years I became disappointed and left my country." He delights in showing in pantomime the differences between Nazi and Communist techniques-the clomping, hobnail boot approach of the Nazis, the sly sneakup of the Communists...
Furthermore, D.P.s were all foreigners, and most likely spies and saboteurs to boot. "There is no question in the world but what many of those now in the D.P. camps were planted there deliberately to infiltrate this country," Gossett declaimed. "They came here with the connivance and assistance...of the Red governments from whom they have allegedly fled. All of this business about these poor people not being able to go home because they would be liquidated is pure unadulterated bosh...
...Gould, had found fault with her latest volume of memoirs and asked her to let them help rewrite it. Editor Wiese knew a golden opportunity when he saw one; he not only snatched Mrs. Roosevelt's memoirs away from the Goulds, but took her monthly answer page to boot. With a jubilant scrambling of metaphors he described his catch as "the biggest plum in the women's magazine field . . . the Journal's umbilical cord with its readers...
...G.B.S.'s idea. "As you have done Shakespeare and Shaw," he told Biographer Hesketh Pearson, "are you not bound to do Dickens? Anybody but Dickens will be a comedown after Shakespeare and G.B.S." Pearson, who is Britain's most fecund literary biographer* and a Dickens fan to boot, heartily agreed; and although his Dickens reveals more about the man and his life than about the artist and his novels, it is nonetheless the best-balanced, most complete biography to date...