Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news or be guilty of inaccuracies and omissions, but Government selection of what is news "could be equally wrong." He smiled wryly at Lomakin as he quoted Russia's Leo Tolstoy: "The thought of censorship hangs over me like a cloud, and the years slip by with nothing done...
...been in action with Chinese Communist troops . . . Russian soldiers of occupation have been guilty of terror and rape-more than can be told. The Manchuria lao pai hsing [common people] told me: 'Everything lao pai hsing won't do, the Russian ta pi tzu [big noses] have done...
...stunning crime? The answer was as obvious as cherchez la femme: only a person with a consuming love of lepidoptera. Last week the mystery was cleared up. In a West Ham court, Colin William Wyatt, a handsome, 38-year-old, onetime Cambridge ski champion, confessed all. Why had he done it? While he was in Australia (with the Air Force), his marriage had gone on the rocks. To forget, he had plunged into a hobby he had pursued since he was a boy, and he had lifted the museums' rarities to add to his own collection...
...slabs lying on their belly, with no unity of composition. . . . A diabolical dream. . . ." Cried Perry Coke Smith, of the American Institute of Architects: "It looks like a sandwich on edge and a couple of freight cars. . . . I fail to see how an office building that narrow can be efficiently done." Engineer Max Foley, president of the New York Building Congress, was a little kinder. "There must be something in that darn thing," said he, "that I don't understand...
...artists had done their best. Surrealist Max Ernst contributed a waxy "translation" of Utah's Bryce Canyon. Jane Berlandina's abstractions of the Sierra peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...