Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hostess No. 1 was Mrs. Elizabeth LaPointe, a 56-year-old grandmother and telephone operator. The man who came to dinner sampled her fruit compote, eggs soaked in pickled beet juice, Norwegian meat sticks, Norwegian coffee, snowball cookies and cinnamon rolls. Only one course was a casualty; Mrs. LaPointe had let the lemon fluff collapse. Coates pronounced the LaPointe dinner "delicious...
Fire! Then Murphy counted by seconds: "X minus 10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . ." When he reached "5," Rosen ordered: "Fire!" A man at the control board pushed a switch, setting off the rocket's igniter. The rocket was not supposed to go off until "zero," but as Commander Murphy chanted "4 . . . 3 . . ." an enormous, fiery blast broke out from under its fins. For a fraction of a second, the rocket hesitated. For another fraction it rose slowly. Then it rose like a streak, as if an irresistible force had picked it off the earth and tossed it into the sky. Behind...
...Acton's old Cambridge professorship. By that time, Trevelyan was married (to the daughter of Mrs. Humphry Ward, novelist niece of Matthew Arnold), had became famous as a historian himself. Thirteen years later, Winston Churchill made him Master of Trinity College. There he reigns, the "Grand Old Man" of Trinity Lodge...
...slums of Glasgow. After he moved to Canada 19 years ago to run a secondhand furniture shop, he found that he could attract customers by drawing in the window. One day Scottie's drawing attracted Bookbinder Douglas Duncan, who bought his pictures, helped arrange a one-man show in Toronto. By 1946 Scottie had moved on to London, become a hero to Horizon. Critics hailed him as "one of the most pronounced artistic personalities in London," found in him "the magic of simplicity...
...Bomb. At X minus 15 minutes, a bomb set off a cloud of bright red warning smoke. The gantry crane had been wheeled away; the rocket stood slim and alone. Just before X minus ten minutes, a man jumped up on the launching platform and pulled the safety plug from between the rocket's fins, and thus closed the control circuits. It was ready to fire...