Word: isaiah
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...Isaiah Berlin once opined that Washington is not a city: "It's more like a vast, temporary headquarters during a campaign. . . . Washington is a bivouac...
...Unlike most show people, Ed Wynn did not come up the hard way, and he has been a success from the start. He began as Isaiah Edwin Leopold, son of a rich Philadelphia ladies' hat manufacturer...
...sheaf of favorite reading-brilliant, witty reports from Washington on U.S. reaction to world events. Long and frowningly he gazed at the signatures, wondered if he had been the victim of a practical joker. Orders were barked, secretaries investigated, Churchill was enlightened. The "I. Berlin" on the reports was Isaiah Berlin, economist, not Irving Berlin, guest...
...farewell party for Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and his experts, expected to go to London for what Cordell Hull called "talks . . . informal and exploratory . . . [on] matters that are of interest to the two Governments at this time." In the party was energetic many-medaled Dr. Isaiah Bowman, 65-year-old president of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Bowman, whose books, map-making and fact-finding expeditions (notably in South America) made him a front-rank political geographer-as opposed to geopolitical writers-was a ranking adviser of Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, there...
...riveter named Rosie (see cut), ankles crossed, overalled knees relaxed, looking royally satisfied with herself and her bulging cheekful of ham sandwich. Mr. Sommerville took Rosie the Riveter to the public library. Memory's bells became a carillon when he turned up a reproduction of Michelangelo's Isaiah (see cut). Mr. Sommerville sent his find to the Kansas City Star, which made good-humored...