Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Central Committee exhorted: "Dyke guards must display the spirit of throwing in their lot with the common people . . . the tendency to take care of one's self at the expense of the interest of the masses must be eliminated...
Where are the beards of yesteryear-the "Spade," the "Tile," the "Uncle Sam," the "Van Dyke," the "Piccadilly Weeper," the "Cathedral?" Where is the like of Huguenot Admiral de Coligny's beard, which served as a pincushion for the admiral's toothpicks? Where is the beaver of iyth Century Bishop Camus of Bellai-a growth so formidable that he used to split it up, as an aid to memory, into the necessary sections and subsections of his sermons? And where is the beard of Austrian Burgomaster Hans Steininger-the one in which he caught his toe, tripped...
...have sompin to keep your mind on when you're up here crankin," says Jimmy Dyke, who has been coming up to the shack to wind the Mem Hall clock every week for the last 18 years...
...roses to TIME, Sept. 13, for its classic "The Water of Arsoli." It should be read with Henry Van Dyke's beautiful story, The Source. Red roses to TIME for its illuminating, lightning-streak last sentence on the burial of Zhdanov. And a bunch of fresh Michigan ragweed for your cut of the unsuspecting Mary Pickford...
Britain's bookish radical, Harold J. (for Joseph) Laski has spent most of his 54 years looking at the world through pink spectacles. Born in Manchester of Hungarian immigrant parents, he looks like a young Henry Van Dyke but often talks like poor Poll with elephantiasis...