Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When short, square-shouldered Jean-Paul Sartre, the latest lion from France's literary zoo, visited the U.S. last year, he swiftly developed a liking for such American commonplaces as the dry Martini, corned beef hash and chocolate ice cream. He also slowly developed an awed liking for bustling, noisy, overcrowded, squalor-spotted, ill-mannered New York City...
...Socialism Made Easy ("if you knew all you should know, you wouldn't have task"). And standing on the other side was Arthur Griffith, little and squat, spectacles on his nose, a dark green velour hat stuck on his head, "the great man with the brain of ice," probably dreaming of Cathleen ni Houlihan and never giving a thought to the far-off days when he would be Eire's President...
...brought from Rome by Samuel Alphonsus Cardinal Stritch, managed to get through the ceremony with a nose that had been through a chilling experience. Playing host to visiting bishops the night before, the Archbishop had tripped, taken a nose dive. Physicians insisted on keeping the archiepiscopal neb in an ice pack all night...
Sonja Henie's success in the U.S. failed to cut any ice with the Norwegian press; a writer for Oslo's Verdens Gang tartly summed up her aid to her native land during the German occupation: "On the whole, she didn't do anything...
Places, Not Faces. Such hog-on-ice independence is half the explanation of Fitz's success. The other half is his knack of dramatizing a complex issue by reducing it to a one-sided dimension in a few bold and simple strokes. He cannot draw likenesses well, so he almost never caricatures specific politicoes. (Though Fitz is in the forefront of U.S. political cartoonists, he is leagues behind the London Evening Standard's pixyish little New Zealander, David Low.) Fitz poured out his feelings about Prohibition (he likes liquor as much as he likes crap games) with...