Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across his desk. Newsmen who jampacked his press conference noticed: 1) Harry Truman had switched from summerweight double-breasted to a medium-weight flannel double-breasted suit; 2) his work-to-be-done boxes were stacked high; 3) there was another box on his desk, filled with emerald green match folders. The President indicated the folders, remarked that he was not supposed to be looking. Deskside reporters grabbed the hint and the matches. Across the folders was printed: "I swiped these from Harry S. Truman." Gadgeteer Truman grinned as the souvenirs were passed around. Then he gave out what routine...
...those who believe that naive Americans are no match for wily Europeans in the spy trade, and for those who just like their movies to move, The House is recommended entertainment...
Playwrights Williams (The Glass Menagerie) and Windham are soapboxing for Life, Growth, Fulfillment and the Future. They set these abstractions up in an English country house, and arrange a match against Stagnation, Snobbishness, the Status Quo, Prudishness and Decay. On Life's side, along with a young flyer, is the young heroine's father (Edmund Gwenn), a rum-soaked old sea captain full of Elizabethan gusto; on Stagnation's side is the heroine's aunt (Catherine Willard), a snooping spinster full of Victorian gentility. The trouble with such highly contrasted symbols is that they themselves...
Last year Lewis engaged in a verbal slugging match with Harvard's crotchety critic Bernard DeVoto, who (in The Literary Fallacy) had attacked Lewis and other writers of the '205, had urged that the epithet "fool" be introduced into the vocabulary of literary criticism. "Fool," cried Novelist Lewis...
...manly chest. Before a healthy audience of some 2,000, he flailed clerical prudery, plumped for the healthy life and for good clean sex ("The sexes were never made to be separated.") and explained Cosmotarianism, "the Religion of Happiness." The white-maned publisher, clad in suit and shoes to match, did push-ups and headstands (calculated to prolong life from ten to 25 years), warned women: "Beauty must be associated with a good digestion...