Word: camel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cardinal Mazarin showed "to what extent possessions can take possession of the possessor." Before he died, Mazarin shuffled sadly through his collection, wearing a nightcap and camel's-hair wrapper, and left the room saying, "Goodbye, dear pictures that I have loved so well and which have cost me so very much...
Oxford, he wrote (signing himself simply "Oxonian"), had become a hotbed of fascism. "Rather smart young men" with a taste for "fast cars and camel-hair coats" were displaying the books of Sir Oswald Mosley on their tables. They could be heard saying at their private binges that "soon we shall all have to be fascists, whether we like...
...conservative sponsors settle for sudsy little dramas. Prell shampoo peeps inside the U.S. bedroom to find a wife chiding her husband because his broad shoulders are sprinkled with dandruff. Camel presents vignettes in which someone, usually a pretty girl, battles a sailfish or performs involved dives from the high board. Then, by a process known as Sponsor's Logic, she ties up her athletic skill with her preference for Camels...
Last week, on his 82nd birthday, the professor put on his tiny, camel-hide shoes. He picked up his 24-ft., 24-lb. balancing pole and stepped out into yawning space. In mid-canyon he stopped, knelt creakily until one knee touched the wire, lurched up, went on. Pale, panting, drenched with sweat, he reached the other side...
News telecasts rarely get off the ground: an announcer reads from a script, with downswept eyes, pointing occasionally to a map, a cartoon or a still photograph. A few (notably the NBC Camel-Fox Movietone News and Du Mont's Tele-News) offer first-rate, up-to-the-minute newsreels. But mostly spot news pickups are only a lick & a promise. Exception: such foreseeable events as political rallies where the cameras, being set in place, catch unscheduled incidents. Television looks forward to the summer's forthcoming conventions, which will be carried by 18 stations (LIFE will cover with...