Word: mats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next up will be Washington's poker-playing, New Dealing Governor Mon C. Wallgren. Wallgren is already getting the welcome mat out at the governor's mansion. Said he: "The suite that Truman occupied will be redone to suit Charlie's personality. After all, this is the greatest timber state in the Union...
...himself up as an international answer man. The female form does not loom as large in Wilson's column as it once did. Now he covers events like Bernarr Macfadden's stand-on-your-head religion, Cosmotari-anism. Reported Wilson: "They got mat burns at last Sunday's sermon. . . ." He interviewed Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura after the critics panned his new show, and reported it, in pure Kiepurese: "The public love oss. They dizagree with the critics. The onjost critics hurts only wahn person-his poblisher and himself!" Wilson showed a flair for punch leads: "John Steinbeck...
...Attend to sundry pressing business mat ters. Among them: the sale to M-G-M of the movie rights to Cass Timberlane, which, together with The Book-of-the-Month Club donative and the magazine serial rights, would certainly boost the total take for his new novel well up toward the half-million-dollar figure. It would ease Novelist Lewis into that golden horseshoe where Kathleen Winsor (For ever Amber) currently queened it over U.S. letters...
Conant, were enlisted in it. Hidden under the official designation "Manhattan Project," the vast forbidden areas in Tennessee, Washington and New Mexico got top priorities not only on matériel but on scientific brains and effort...
...only institution in some [rural] communities, we should have men who would be able to wrestle not only with the religious problems but furnish some leadership for the community in all of its aspects." The school was nonsectarian, but most of the preacher-students were Methodists. Instructors skirted doctrinal mat ters, stressed the cold facts of soil conservation, health, education. Classes were highly informal, with the preachers lounging in overstuffed chairs and enthusiastically shouting "Amen!" when a speaker made a telling point. After two weeks of hard study, most of them took a night off to see the Atlanta Crackers...