Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along San Francisco's Grant Avenue, Manhattan's Fifth, Minneapolis' Nicollet Avenue, Dallas' Main Street, last-minute Christmas shoppers jostled and shoved. But sometimes they forgot to push, and pressed like moths to the lighted store windows, lost in synthetic wonderlands behind the glass...
...Moore decided on were "Fools Rush In . . ." (in the window a little lady braves a lion's den to win a fox furpiece), and "A Stitch in Time . . ." (a doll-size girl sews a rhinestone on to a life-size silk stocking). Another proverb, "People Who Live in Glass Houses" called for two figures under a glass bell in the center of a residential square (see cut). The giant hands accusing them from neighboring doors and windows were meant to advertise Bonwit's gloves...
...into Peace? In both the Old City and the New City, Jewish and Arab soldiers chatted amiably back & forth across narrow strips of no man's land. One Arab Legion captain, lifting a glass of tea, called out: "May Allah grant that the end of the war come before my next glass of tea!" Near the Jaffa Gate, unarmed Legionnaires sat dangling their legs over the wall of the Old City. In the streets below, Arab soldiers were dancing, without swords, a Bedouin sword dance. Jewish and Arab civilians even staged a football match. The Israeli team...
...spectacle in London's Harringay Arena made one loyal boxing fan shudder and say: "From now on, wrestling will be my hobby." In the third round, New Jersey's Lee Savold had popped glass-chinned Bruce Woodcock on his glass chin. Down went Brucie. In the fourth round, Savold popped him again with a low body blow. Woodcock, collapsing like a damp dishrag, lay moaning & groaning on the floor. Some of the sportwriters were reminded of a countryman of his, "Fainting Phil" Scott, who had made an art of collapsing, back in the late...
Harvard Club of Des Moines, James E. Cooney '41, 1012 Bankers Trust Building; Harvard Club of Eastern Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Sumner H. Foster '32, 2060 Glass rd, ne; Harvard Club of Eastern Michigan, Detroit, Lawrence J. Verdier '33, 3380 Penobscot Building...