Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woman, Louis Guilloux described a quarrel between a businessman and his wife-a quarrel which is hair-raising precisely because it is caused by nothing but sheer boredom. In his two contributions, Jean-Paul Sartre, France's latest light-o'-letters, fills his fountain pen with embalming fluid and blandly describes 1) how reasonable it is these days for a woman to be madly in love with a lunatic, 2) how inevitable it is that a man will get killed if you try to save his life...
...place in TIME'S picture of New York for wholesome American living or normal American people . . . The article passes over New York's true importance in the national scene, allowing only an incidental word for the city as a port, a marketplace, a tourist center, as a "fountain spout" of culture, finding time for no mention at all of its place as a national center of music, higher education, medical research, managerial leadership, publishing, or the American tradition of human rights...
...attention to the professional politicos. Most Iowans liked his record in the legislature. He had fought the governor on school legislation, had opposed Blue's stringent labor laws. When the returns came in, Bill Beardsley was the busiest man in Iowa. He was back of his soda fountain, helping fix the sundaes, Cokes and coffee for his farm neighbors...
...West Point, to Hoyt Jr., a rock-jawed plebe, went a fountain pen and a rock-solid handshake from Air Force General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, '23, who has come a long way since then but still looks a little like a plebe with his hair slicked down...
...York is the fountain-spout of U.S. culture, the intellectual gateway to England and Europe, a pump from which ideas-both good & bad-flood out over the world. It is a citadel of opera and art; its 32 legitimate theaters are the heartland of the U.S. stage. Its rich and haughty cosmetic queens determine the type of cream with which millions of women grease their faces before retiring; its beauty salons force them to cut their hair. Its Hattie Carnegies and Nettie Rosensteins dictate fashion; its $2 billion garment industry makes 80% of all U.S. women's dresses...