Word: box
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Come, you Americans are too modest. You must have half a dozen trained chimps in your country who can give you clearer impressions of a restaurant out of a box of paints...
That afternoon, when the House of Commons met to debate Cyprus, Hugh Foot took a seat in the "box," a seat under the gallery reserved for officials whose knowledge may be needed by a Cabinet minister. Aneurin Bevan, so long the terror of the Tories, summed up Labor's position: "We do not commend these proposals . . . but we advise the Greeks and Turks not to reject them out of hand." And if agreement was reached, added Laborite Jim Callaghan, "we would not seek to overturn it." In the same mood of conciliation, Prime Minister Macmillan noted, "We have...
When she got the mail from the letter box one morning last week, a Bavarian housewife noted that one letter was addressed to her absent husband, who had recently been enrolled in West Germany's fledgling army. She also noticed that the letter was daintily scented and that the handwriting was obviously feminine. After a minuscule struggle with her conscience, she ripped open the envelope, read...
...postwar columns in the Vienna New Austria. On audiences at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (where his son Herbert has been a longtime stage director): "Each year a new generation of Mammon families is educated for attendance at the Metropolitan, where the young lady learns to sit in a box with the cool expression of a rich heiress and look at the stage as if she were packed...
...prize block, which has just been cleaned of its incrustations, shows the debated Gallic harvester. It has two wheels and a comb of teeth, just as Pliny said, and a box to catch the heads of grain. In front, carrying a shovel-like implement, is a laborer. The only important deviation from the Pliny version is that the motive power appears to be a mule instead of oxen...