Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salvation Army has come up in the world since then. When Commissioner Parker began his work, social service people considered the Salvationists as human refuse collectors, had slight use for the idea that the Gospel could rehabilitate a man. Not so Convert Parker. He got up early mornings to chalk Scripture texts on sidewalks. He drove brass-headed nails in the shape of large S's into the soles of his boots so that when he knelt in the streets people would be reminded of the Salvation Army. But some people were unregenerate. Mobs often stoned the Salvationists, threw...
...year--about 1938. Then two other guys took Mr. Garvey on in bowling and he clicked off a trio of games averaging about 175. Somebody else invited him to play pool one night and he knocked in 13 of the first 15 balls before the other guy could chalk...
Born in Dover, Ohio, Papsdorf has al ways lived in Ohio or Michigan. His German-born ex-missionary father sent him to grade schools, kept a sharp eye on his son's pastimes. Fred Papsdorf made his own beginner's colors out of stray tinted chalk mixed with linseed oil, later ordered10? tubes of mail-order paint (pictures made with these paints, he says, have held correct color values through the years...
...tack, he implies that the fundamental question is one involving the power ratio of Congress in relation to foreign policy. Vestiges of isolationist complacency are refurbished by H. Fish's statement that "the reciprocal trade agreements have no more to do with peace than cheese has to do with chalk." The political heirs of 1920 still exist; "Cheese" Fish is living evidence...
When Winston Churchill in 1940 promised the British people "nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat," he was as much the voice of Britain as was the roar of Spitfires over the chalk cliffs of Dover. Last fortnight, when he offered the world a British way toward peace with security (TIME, March 29), he voiced the yearnings not only of his own countrymen but of all the Allied peoples. Among them were many differences, some deep and wide; but common to them all was a desire to see at least the outlines of a better world...