Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grandson of a minister and a schoolmaster, seemed at first to be a dubious investment. At home, Albert's brothers & sisters called him "the dreamer." At school, reading and writing came hard to him, and his nervous giggle earned him the nickname of Isaac (in Hebrew, "He laughs"). His parents had all they could do to keep him at his piano lessons. Twenty minutes was set aside for practicing each day, but Albert often scandalized the family by spending the first 15 minutes in the bathroom groaning with a trumped-up stomachache...
...rowdy days, some of the reporters carried pistols, and now & then a celebrating staffer took a shot at. the city-room clock; General Manager and Managing Editor Isaac Gershman put down the practice when a wild bullet holed his vest as he sat at his desk. Nowadays, a City Press reporter's life is less temerarious; though a juicy murder or a big fire still comes along to relieve the routine, it is mostly a hard-working job of covering the unexciting but important little stories that fill out the chronicle of the day. But Editor Gershman...
...Spent a happy fifteen minutes exchanging Bible quotations with Isaac Halevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel...
...with the high silk hat and the flaring beard seemed to be everywhere last week, carrying his gold-headed cane and dog-eared Old Testament, and speaking a fine, clear Dublin English. Everywhere he went, his people flocked around him to ask his blessing and welcome His Eminence Isaac Halevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel...
When the great men of his own day came his way, Aubrey recorded every word he heard. Sir Isaac Newton and Philosopher Thomas Hobbes were his friends, and he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, where he knew John Dryden and Christopher Wren. No man to take irretrievable sides in 17th Century politics, he not only recorded Charles I's tall hunting stories but later listened to Cromwell declaiming at dinner that in all England Devon husbandry was best. When Charles II came home from exile, Aubrey was on hand again, recording the occasion when a Mr. Evans...