Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning hopefully to Warsaw after a brief rest in Washington, His Excellency Arthur Bliss Lane, U.S. Ambassador to Poland, found his stylish, three-story embassy still occupied by the eight Polish women and one man who have squatted there since last March. Under Polish law the squatters cannot be evicted until "satisfactory " accommodations have been found for them. So far they have turned down all proffers. Meanwhile Ambassador and Mrs. Lane have been forced to set up diplomatic shop in a two-room suite in the drab Polonia, once a third-rate commercial hotel...
Ambassador Lane receives state callers in his living room while his wife ducks discreetly into the kitchen-bedroom, where she also cooks the meals on a hot plate. Meanwhile some Embassy personnel work in Quonset-like huts in Warsaw's bomb-scarred lots...
George P. Denny '09, Walter S. Franklin '06, Robert S. Gross '19, Francis W. Hatch '19, Amory Houghton '21, R. Keith Lane '22, Jacob J. Kaplan '08, Dr. Oliver L. Loring '26,Thomas H. Mahoney '06, J Lawrence Pool '28, Clarence B. Randall '12, Joseph P. Sprang, Jr., '15, Lawrence Terry '22, George Whitney...
European biographers did little better. Biographical surprise-of-the-year was Britisher Margaret Lane's admirable The Tale of Beatrix Potter, the story of the eccentric lady who fashioned and illustrated the children's beloved Peter Rabbit. Charles Dickens, by Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, cast no light on Dickens' working manners, much on his bedside manner. Stefan Zweig's posthumous, unfinished Balzac might have said more if Zweig had lived to finish the telling. Hesketh Pearson's Oscar Wilde was a sober, intelligent study of a man-and type-who is rarely treated with either...
...year-old weekly on London's Bouverie Street it was the 5,378th issue; for the new editor, it was the first. To appraise his work, his staffers grabbed the first damp copies that came up from the pressroom. Page One was reassuring (it had a lovers' lane murder yarn) and inside there were headlines like JURY TOLD OF HER LIFE WITH MAN CALLED A 'BEAST,' and CHASTITY PACT BROKEN, SAYS JUDGE...