Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emily Post writes (TIME, Aug. 19) regarding Russel Wright cups-"A thick edge-especially one curving inward-defies every effort of human lips to hold back the gush of liquid which dribbles down the sides...
...lips have performed their human functions for 37 years. For five years they lave been drinking from Russel Wright cups neatly, and I hope politely, with no problems of gush and dribble...
...public and to himself than a fool or a knave on the driver's seat of a hay wagon. Hence, on this latter-day road, the crucial challenge is no longer technological but psychological. . . . The old challenge of physical distance has been transmuted into a new challenge of human relations between drivers who have learned how to 'annihilate distance' and have thereby put themselves in constant danger of annihilating one another...
Plush chairs caused trouble in Paris too. The reason: fleas. Thousands of the active insects, charmed out of the Luxembourg Palace's aging red plush chairs by the human warmth of some 1,200 delegates, kept the peacemakers busy scratching. A U.S. correspondent offered to write a ballad entitled: "I've Got That Luxembourg Itch...
...insane, Author Kavan shows, the normal man is apt to appear either as a potential "traitor" and "betrayer" or as a blind, stolid creature who has no awareness of the terrifying "powers" that control the destinies of man. Sometimes these omnipotent powers assume human shape. They become "authorities," "officials," "advisers"-suave, tough men & women with hypodermic syringes who may rudely invade your own home at any moment, pack your suitcase, and drive you away to "prison" in a closed car-while the husband who once told you he loved you looks the other way, or assists the invaders...