Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Authorities differ on the spelling and significance of Peralta's nickname. Spelled Mate Cocido, it means brewed yerba mate, a native tea, on which the bandit lived during a prison term. Spelled Mate Cosido, it refers to a wound Peralta got in a brush with police, means, in slang, Sutured Conk...
Died. George de Forest Brush, 84, oldtime U.S. portraitist, of 19th-Century academic traditions, past whose pretty, clear-colored mother-&-child portraits, prominently hung in older museums, the U.S. museum-strolling public has for 50 years beaten a reverent, admiring path; in Hanover...
...full-dress parade at Hong Kong race track seated on a handsome brown horse, clanking unnautical golden spurs. He used to be a great athlete-an all-Navy cricket and rugby player, a squash-courts intimate of Edward of Windsor, an enthusiastic pursuer of the fox's brush-and still keeps himself trim by touching the floor 100 times every morning. He looks so spruce that he is often taken for a brother of his elder...
Since the U.S. Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, NJ. is hard by the Lakewood Country Club, many a Lakehurst officer has been able to brush up on his golf. Lakehurst last week challenged nearby Fort Dix to an Army-Navy golf match, named as their entrants Lt. Commanders George Watson, R. F. Tylor. Lieut. M. F. D. Flaherty...
...might suppose that a day-by-day account of London in war-time would be monotonous because it is no longer news. But reading the book is an excellent way to brush up on one's history of the last 19 months. And the picture it gives of democracy under fire is as timely and graphic as it was when it was first presented...