Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curmudgeon Ickes didn't like the idea at all. Henry the Morgue was afraid the statuette of himself might be sold over the counter for 50?, along with little images of Buffalo Bill and George Washington. President Roosevelt took one look at the result and cried: "Wait a minute. I don't wear a waistcoat." Through it all, diminutive, agile, 53-year-old Sculptor Max Kalish preserved speed and competence. He was engaged in one of the most spectacular one-man sculpture marathons ever undertaken: the modeling of some 50 statues of U.S. war leaders in sittings...
...high as 4,800 to a cup (test is made by swabbing out a utensil with wet sterile cotton and culturing the swab). The maximum the law allows is 100. One drug store had 86,000 bacteria to a cup-no surprise to customers who have watched lunch-counter dishwashing with horrified fascination. Some New York City beer glasses, which usually get a split-second rinse in lukewarm water, had a count of 55,000, but in a survey of an unnamed city last year the Public Health Service found an average of 7,000,000 bacteria per beer glass...
...year he was assistant to Editor Walter Hines Page on World's Work. For two years he wrote definitions or a dictionary, articles for an encyclopedia. Like Edwin Arlington Robinson, he could draw a map of New York City, showing the location of every free lunch counter. One of his good friends was John Butler Yeats, the painter, father of William Butler Yeats. The old man lectured to him on the value of idleness, painted a fine portrait of him that now hangs over the fireplace of his house in Westport, and told him the one most important thing...
...provide the College with "the other side of the question," the Harvard Conservative League, constituting a counter-movement to the Harvard Liberal Union, field its first meeting Wednesday at 7:48 o'clock in the Adams Upper Common Room, with over 30 men attending...
William Randolph Hearst, who unloaded part of his estimated $15,000,000 to $50,000,000 art collection by over-the-counter sales at Manhattan's Gimbel Bros., lost another estimated $300,000 to $500,000 worth in a fire which destroyed one of the main buildings at Wyntoon, his summer home in McCloud, Calif...