Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...literary allusion in conversation. The entire book is larded with supposedly apt quotations, most of them uprooted from English literature and sown broadcast through every chapter. When Dorothea's son wishes to enlist in the Navy, Miss Howe's comment as novelist is "No man is an island," a reference which since the publication of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" has been fighting it out with "This above all" as the most overworked phrase in all literature...
...north, 240 air miles away, was Bikini, once one of the least-known and most peaceful of Pacific island groups. In Bikini's 200-sq.-mi. lagoon was an anchorage about five miles in diameter. In a space where the Navy would normally have only 14 ships (or five in a cruising formation at sea), 73 vessels had been jampacked for the test...
...Heir. Manuel Roxas was born on New Year's Day, 1892, in the house of his well-to-do grandfather in Capiz, on the Visayan island of Panay. His father had been killed six months before by the Spanish. At eleven, Manuel Roxas was sent to school in Hong Kong. But his dislike of Chinese food brought him back in a year to the schools of Capiz, then being set up under the American system...
...Dining on Long Island as reported in the current issue of Gourmet...
...bigger, do something about its cookie-cutter picture layouts. Fuller made clear: there will be no more space for the poor man's holiday. "I don't want stories about how to cook supper in the backyard or how to save up 50? to go to Coney Island. I want articles about . . . what to do and what to see at Yellowstone Park. And in between, articles about what to wear at such places. That's what people want from a magazine called Holiday. Even people who can't afford to go to Bermuda want to read...