Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dream Man. In Detroit, Mrs. William Tomashek won a divorce after her husband boasted in his sleep of his extra-marital conquests...
Quivering Nostrils. Lafcadio Hearn was a sight to see, and he knew it. One eye was blind and covered with a milky film; the other was "myopic and protruding, so that it looked like the single eye of an octopus." A short (5 ft. 3), slight man with a scraggly mustache, he made some people think of "a distorted brownie." The nostrils of his long aquiline nose quivered constantly, picking up odors that most people could not smell at all. Odors were his great passion. During his New Orleans period, he translated every article he could find in French periodicals...
Before long he was smelling trouble in New Orleans: his Cincinnati notoriety had dogged his heels southward. "I am pretty much in the position," he wrote, "of a bookkeeper known to have once embezzled, or of a man who has been in prison, or of a prostitute who has been on the street." In turn he tried Martinique, Philadelphia and New York, soon tired of all. Looking for something different, he signed with a publisher to go to Japan and send back some sketches...
...Every system must take self-love into account," the clergyman commented. "But in a technical society," he said, "each man seeking his own good will not produce the common welfare...
...certain standards by which the Attorney General could determine who was disloyal by membership is, or sympathetic association, with certain organizations which he, the Attorney General would determine are subversive. Thus, the power to decide who was eligible for government employment was placed in the hands of one man, unfettered by any unconstitutional guarantees of due process of law. Justice Jackson condemned this type of proceeding when, speaking for the Supreme Court is West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 US 624, 642 (1943) he said: "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation...