Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columnist Gordon longs for the old days when embassy staffs were small and Washington's select social group stood out like the monument. Says she: "It really isn't society anymore." Nevertheless. Evie has adjusted herself to the new social bureaucracy, nowadays frequently prints items about such relative newcomers as Hostesses Perle Mesta and Gwen Cafritz. While Evie Gordon travels among the elite, the bulk of her public-and some of her best sources-are such people as doormen and automobile callers at Washington receptions. One denizen of the social world once said to her: "Oh Evie, somebody...
...would be 47 in March, but I don't think I'll make it ... It isn't the certainty of death that men fear. It is the uncertainty of death. The soldiers I saw weren't frightened any longer after they knew for sure they were going...
...price rise in coffee was a simple matter of supply & demand. As the song said, "there's an awful lot of coffee in Brazil," but now there isn't nearly enough...
Work comes first with Tenley, but she definitely isn't the knee socks, book bag type. Like most Radcliffe girls, she went to all the football games; but she says it's almost impossible to reach her the week before a Chem hour exam. She likes "all sorts of fun," and her skating carries over to her skill on the dance floor...
There's lots to do if your book isn't interesting. They have the Farnsworth room, which is an exact replica of a 19th century library, with all the old books and everything. But they have some Sinclair Lewis novels if you want to read the up-to-date stuff. Then they've got the Woodberry poetry room, with Swedish redwood panelling and three-thousand-dollar turntables four feet high. Of course nobody's interested in poetry much any more, but the boys from Humanities 130 slipped in some Burl Ives' records with obscene lyrics and zither accompaniment...