Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...received tributes by the hundreds† and presents by the score on his 73rd birthday. Among the presents: a bold seascape in oil by seven-year-old Grandson Winston II, whose art teacher is his grandfather. Winston II explained to the inquiring press why he hadn't yet done a portrait of his grandfather: "He wouldn't keep still...
...seems to be due to three factors: a) the ever blacker and bleaker political outlook; b) my own growing sense of ignorance . . .; c) the psychological demands of a one-man magazine. . . ." Not much could be done about a, but Editor Macdonald would do what he could about the other two: he would try to get an editorial group together, and he would change Politics to a quarterly "for a while," starting in January...
...four columns outside the city and a fifth column of sympathizers within, the world pounced on the phrase with the eagerness of a man who has been groping for an important word. The world might better have been stunned as by a tocsin of calamity. For what Mola had done was to indicate the dimension of treason in our time...
...Repentant. There were other children of treason. Says Author West: "The children "who go from their homes with strangers because they have been given cakes and sweets are unsustained by pride when the unkindness falls on them. They know well that they have done wrong. A person should be loyal to his father and mother, to his brothers and sisters, to his friends, to his town or village, to his province, to his country; and a person should do nothing for a bribe, even if it takes the form of a promise that he should live instead...
...part of his defense was that he was not a British subject). His parents were Irish. They were loyal to England. When Ireland became Eire, they were forced to emigrate to Britain. Joyce's father was suspected of being a British informer. William Joyce claimed that he had done intelligence work for the Black & Tans...