Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chunky Gregory Rice of South Bend, Ind., loping around to the tune of Notre Dame's Victory March: a two-mile race, headliner of New York's Knights of Columbus track meet; in 8 min., 56.2 sec., breaking the world's indoor record by almost two seconds; before 16,000 spectators; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Hailed as America's No. 1 distance runner, Notre Darner Rice, who also set a new world's indoor record for three miles (13:55.9) three weeks ago, will be matched next fortnight against famed Finn Taisto...
...born as to be nameless, Aretino took his name from his town, Arezzo, where he was born on Good Friday of the year Columbus sighted America. (Good Friday, as his enemies loved to remind the world, was the legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15, he quit home. He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi...
...gamboled in Paris with Thomas Moore; the fame which he had won by amusing himself (with his Knickerbocker's History of New York, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) was at its height. In Madrid he buckled down to his first job of scholarly writing, a life of Columbus. Young Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, passing through, noted that Irving was at his desk every morning at six; that in society he "said very pleasant agreeable things in a husky, weak, peculiar voice." He liked everybody, but he especially liked a handsome, Spanish Mrs. O'Shea, a pretty French girl named...
Paid $15,000 for his Columbus, Irving started off in 1828 on his famous journey through Andalusia, Spain's South, gathering material for and writing on The Conquest of Granada and The Alhambra. Traveling through wild mountains with a Russian prince for companion, he met contrabandistas, looked for bandits, was feted by village dancers with red roses in their hair. When an amused Spanish governor told him he could live in the huge old Moorish palace of the Alhambra, Irving was delighted. He moved in and stayed, imagining the heroic past and only slightly disconcerted by the howls...
Recently returned from a trip devoted to verifying the log of Columbus, Professor Morison discounted the statements of Representative Hamilton Fish and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. claiming that Roosevelt's only purpose in collecting his archives was to glorify his term in office...