Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hans Erni is one of Switzerland's most skillful and mysterious painters. Recently an Erni show in Geneva drew 3,000 people in two weeks, and raised a lot of questions. Why, the abstractionists wanted to know, did Erni sully the purity of his abstract compositions by introducing classical figures and anatomical charts? And why, asked the conservatives, did he scratch up his photographically accurate pictures with abstract shapes...
There were no golf courses in Dublin. Until his father died and the Hogans moved up to Fort Worth, Ben didn't even know there was such a game. In Fort Worth, at twelve, he made the startling discovery that caddies at Glen Garden Country Club made 65? a round, better than he could do selling papers at Union Station. He strolled over, hands in pockets and hat brim upturned, to find out what it took to be a caddy...
Like many another military man, the late General George Patton was prayerful as well as profane. He was also a peremptory commander who did not hesitate to let the Almighty know what kind of cooperation he expected. When bad weather held up his advance before the Battle of the Bulge, he is reported (by one of his staff) to have called in Third Army Chaplain James H. O'Neill, and said: "Chaplain, I want you to publish a prayer for good weather . . . See if we can't get God to work on our side." The chaplain demurred...
...that I do not find myself where . . . I appear to him to be, and where he had delivered such lusty blows . . . When I read his exposition, I cannot help recalling the concave mirror in which I recently saw my reflection in the Musee Crevin in Paris and did not know whether to laugh...
...moment about 26 boats are capable of operations in the Atlantic; the submarine arm is still much too weak, however, to have any decisive effect on the war. The surface forces, moreover, are so inferior in number and strength that they can do no more than show that they know how to die gallantly...