Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia College Dean Harry J. Carman: "Any person who is a member of the Communist Party is not free to seek or disseminate the truth . .. The end product of the Communist teacher's work is Communist propaganda...
...wanted no "candy and cake" atmosphere, refused to allow an ice show in the coliseum or a professional football game in the L.S.U. stadium. He frowned on the university's traditional brand of student election campaigns, with their bathing beauties, free shoeshines, jazz bands, fire engines and acrobats. "I hope I am the last person to take the joy out of going to college," he told his students, "but just what sort of a university do you want...
...nigger got in, with the crisp warning: "A substandard term"). Finally, the most specialized new words went out to consulting experts for definition. One of the new dictionary's "youngest" definitions (written by Historian Hans Kohn of Smith College): iron curtain-"a barrier created by censorship, prohibition of free travel, etc , to isolate Russian-controlled territory from outside contact...
...admirers often wished he had worked more in a permanent medium like oils instead of feeding free ideas to dress designers, for since every new idea outmoded his previous ones, his most delightful notions swiftly became old hat. Bérard once explained what he liked best about his position as a beacon of Paris elegance, and why he preferred prettifying girls to painting them. Said Bébé: "I don't like women, I just like silk...
While the orchestra tuned up, "kids swarmed over the stage, inspecting everything from tubas to tympani. But when husky Conductor Ben Swalin rapped his baton for attention, they scrambled to their free seats, got set to listen. Swalin gave them excerpts from Schumann's "Spring" Symphony (No. 1), a Mozart rondo, a serving of Vaughan Williams and Berlioz and a chicken-reel. Before each number, the musicians held up the instruments to be featured so the kids could see them. And when the last chicken was reeled the youngsters hollered for more. So did the grownups at a second...