Word: mantels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SNCC offices, just off Hunter Street, radicalism is not a strange word or concept. A copy of Malraux's Man's Fate lies ostentatiously on a mantel piece, preventing copies of the National Guardian and the Reporter from blowing away in the Georgia breeze. A picture of several field secretaries hangs on the wall, entitled in pencil: "Three who make revolution." Asked to explain that, a member of the office staff smiled: "Well, if we get Eastland beaten someday, that'll be a revolution...
...University of California at Davis, hogs should get ham-building exercise. He tested his theory by building a stand-up feeding trough with a cleated shelf in front on which the hogs could rest their feet. "It's sort of like a person eating off a mantel," he explains...
...planned for himself a purposely low-keyed, easy-paced week. Grinning broadly, he set the week's quiet tone by receiving a distinguished visitor, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, who came to the White House to witness the unveiling of a new white marble mantel for its State Dining Room, to take the place of the mantel installed by Teddy Roosevelt in 1902 and removed when the White House was restored...
...regal Red Room, long used for receptions before state dinners and now used mainly for ladies' teas. Its walls and silk draperies are a bright magenta trimmed in gold, setting off the portraits of eleven past U.S. Presidents. Thomas Jefferson has the place of honor over the mantel, taking the place of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and her pet collie...
Second: The team in the majors, the Yankees, could very well other pennant this year, damned if I'll pick them Mantel, Roger Maris, and ron are broad-backed nonentities who slam the ball out of sight and return to oblivion immediately afterwards. Who cares? After what the Yankees did to Casey Stengel, nothing is too bad for them...