Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace was the sickly hatred Churchill described, and peace was other things: the Colonel Blimpish British mine owner who looked forward to the return of unemployment as a cure for the contagion of absenteeism (sometimes 40 percent) which broke out whenever big sports events nearby attracted his work-weary miners; the farmer (of military age) hopefully sowing his field on which a tank rusted, near Saint-Lô, Normandy (see cut); the profound, silent distrust of eleven-year-old Filomena Carciopoli, of Puzzuoli, Italy, who sullenly concealed her starving seven-month-old sister under a bed so they could...
...second year of the American Civil War, Christopher Kuester and his family fled to the U.S. from the hardship and ever-menacing hunger of peasant life in Germany. The year the Franco-Prussian War broke out (1870), they reached Cass County, where a heavily, German population had begun to put down American roots...
...subsistence than before the war. (Strange as it seemed, after all the killing, there were 100 million more people in the world in 1946 than in 1939; 35 million of them were in India alone.) But if 1946 crops were subnormal or if the organization of food supply broke down at any critical point, the famine of 1947 might be worse than that which threatened...
Edgar Lee Masters, whose Spoon River Anthology made U.S. literary history 30 years ago, and who was last in the news when he was found broke, ill and half-starved in Manhattan in 1944, won a high-timely $5,000 fellowship at 76. Donors: the Academy of American Poets. Observed Poet Masters, resting his way back to health in Charlotte, N.C.: "Poets in America find it hard even to make a living. I personally am very grateful." Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 28-year-old historian (The Age of Jackson), won a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a "political-intellectual history...
...economy, Harvard University fired a young poet and assistant professor of English named Theodore Spencer. Cambridge University promptly offered him a lectureship-but war broke before he could take it. Harvard, properly impressed, Lend-Leased him as a "visiting professor" from Cambridge. Last week, Harvard, which has been increasingly impressed by Ted Spencer since then, appointed him, at 44, to the prestigious, 140year-old Boylston Professorship of "Rhetoric & Oratory (first chairholder: John Quincy Adams; last: Poet Robert S. Hillyer...