Word: eva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman laughed again. That's not hard to do, he said, because when he was about 16 or 20 years old, he used to go to every vaudeville show that ever came to Kansas City. He had seen the Four Cohans and Eva Tanguay, he remembered. And he used to be an usher every Saturday afternoon at the Grand and see the shows free. "Where was the Grand?" a Kansas City Star reporter asked. Down at Seventh and Walnut, said Truman. "Gosh," said the reporter, "we'll have to put up a plaque there tomorrow...
...Notaplace, get it?" he chuckled to his wife Eva-though with a sinking heart, because he knew that poor Eva, whose life depended on a well-ordered battery of labor-saving devices, was probably not going to relish the simple life of Utopia one bit. Only what she and Joe took to be the advancing shadow of World War III had scared her into agreeing to pull up her bourgeois roots and join him in the new colony being formed on a New England mountaintop...
...Eva are the only more-or-less average Americans in Mary McCarthy's satirical fantasy about a bunch of highbrows who decide that it is time for people like themselves to hit it for the grass roots. This is not the first time that sprightly Author McCarthy, onetime wife of Critic Edmund Wilson and former drama critic of the fiercely intellectual Partisan Review, has peppered the left wing with birdshot. In The Company She Keeps (TIME, June 1, 1942), she made a novel of sorts out of a series of lively, only-too-lifelike portraits of Manhattan intellectuals...
...Where TIME itself has been banned since the cover story on Eva Perón in July...
...Munich denazification court, Photographer Heinrich Hoffman, who brought Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun together, testified that the Fiihrer's relations with Eva were platonic to the end. Said Hoffman: "Eva never was alone when she met Herr Hitler in the evening. In this respect, Herr Hitler was very infantile...