Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lights of Butte, Mont., when seen from the Continental Divide, have a strange, haunting beauty. But in the daytime Butte is anything but beautiful to look at-"by dark a diamond set in jet, but by day ... an uncorseted wench dissipated from the night before." Last week Butte (pop. 37,000) had a book all to itself. The book (Copper Camp; Hastings House; $2.75) is the latest of the series compiled by the late Federal Writers' Project...
...wife of Captain Robert Thompson, who commands the [Alaska] Scouts (TIME, Aug. 9), and the picture, which you identify as him, is actually Sergeant Hiram Walker. This [mistake] has appeared in three magazines now. . . . Also, your picture of Larry ("Diamond Jim") Beloff, half-breed, is William ("Diamond Jim") Seaton. William Seaton is no more half-breed than you are and was sort of bothered about...
...dresses quietly, usually in dark suits, and seldom straps on the $375 diamond-studded cowboy belt given him by Fort Worth Publisher Amon G. Carter. His pleasures are simple. He likes to fish; he is most at home among his small circle of intimates, largely members of the Texas delegation in Congress, with whom he swaps stories of Texas history and local politics. He drinks very lightly, does not play poker, reads heavily-history and Westerns...
...ASTP, which is stationed over at the Medical School in Boston, and the Chaplain School, which will not be in session at the time because of graduation. The other schools--Supply, Statisticians, Electronics, ASTP and Reserve, Miscellaneous--will pass the reviewing stand at the Varsity baseball diamond with the 11th Coast Artillery Band providing the music...
...spritely Keatsian reminiscences by Brian O'Nolan in your Aug. 23 issue recall that in his youth Keats took such a passionate interest in baseball he became regarded as a sage of the diamond, was often called upon to settle disputed matches...