Word: happiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Closeted with Republican fund raisers, Ike offered some confident advice: "If I had the task of organizing and raising money ... I would say, 'How much happier are you than you were four years ago?' " Then he hurried to the Hunt Armory for his speech, marched into an arena where 10,000 had filled all seats; half as many more were waiting to listen from outside. Introduced by Pennsylvania's campaigning U.S. Senator Jim Duff (see below), "Mamie Eisenhower's husband" apologized that Mamie was kept in Washington by a cold, proceeded to lash Democratic "partisan oratory...
...lucky ones actually buy an island in the Caribbean or off the coast of Maine. But they seldom stick it out. For the tragedy of the modern Robinson Crusoe is that he cannot seem to shake off the hold of modern life. Was primitive man really happier? Is contemporary civilization really a flop? One of the finest fictional forays toward an answer is The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier, a Cuban-born writer who now lives in Venezuela...
...waterless wastes of Bechuanaland there is no happier word than pula, which means first "rain," and hence almost everything else that is good. Last week in a tidy suburban cottage outside London, a handsome, long-legged law student gazed at his comely,wife of eight years and murmured a heartfelt "Pula" Soon afterward he canceled his plans for a December bar examination, put his Croydon cottage up for sale and made plans to go home. "From now on," he said, "I'm going to be a farmer...
...Greatest Victor," or "The Secret of Sensible Living Is Simplicity." Or convey his eternal hope. "I think that in a hundred years," he wrote at school long ago, "it is to be hoped and expected that the people of our country will be wiser and better, and therefore happier, than...
...English soprano and an Italian tenor, picked up an education in Switzerland and Portugal, became a British subject and a proper young businessman. But not for long. As soon as he could read, he had begun to devour history, and one day he left his proper job for the happier one of cranking out historical novels. Quote the opening line of one of his most famous ones-"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad"-and thousands of readers now living will know that it is from Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini...