Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Barkley discovered that he had added a new word to the language. "Darned if it hasn't gone all over the country now," he said. "Every time I pick up a paper I find I'm 'The Veep...
Forewarned about Dutra's habits, the Bolivian ambassador arrived at the airport at 5:30-to find that the President had been waiting there half an hour...
...opponent cannot obliterate them all. The Voice now uses 36 stations and the BBC 25. They change their frequencies suddenly and often, instructing the Russian listeners to "search all short-wave bands." This keeps the jammers on the jump. It takes them about twelve seconds on the average to find and jam a dodging program. In the unjammed interval, an alert Russian listener may sometimes pick up a tidbit of news...
Fashions in smell vary with geography, too. The authors point out that Chinese gourmets, rebuked for liking "rotten eggs," can point with horror to the "rotten milk" (cheese) that Westerners find so delicious. "The shade of offense from odors," the authors note, "is measured by time, place, occasion and inurement...
Loughborough lowbrows were less impressed with Skegness, and Alfred Warbis, father of the painter, shared their opinion that it was not much. A commercial artist by trade, the senior Warbis had two academic pictures in the show himself, was surprised to find them somewhat eclipsed by his son's work. Skegness, said Alfred Warbis, was "horrible-he's got the boats upside down, and he couldn't even sign his name; he had to print...