Word: messe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short Cut. On petition from the White House staff, the President approved plans for renovation of the long-abandoned White House clay tennis court, which will be maintained by surplus funds out of the White House mess. One restriction, laid down by Mamie Eisenhower: Players wearing shorts may not parade across the public lawn from the West Wing to the court, instead must use the nearby tool shed for a dressing room...
...took 112 lives, including 16 children and 69 women, some of whom jumped to suicide when their children drowned. From Athenia's SOS, Lemp learned his victim's name. "So eine Schweinerei!" he exploded: "Warum fährt der aber auch abgeblendet?" (What a mess! But why was she blacked out?) The British called it murder. Goebbels screamed that the villain Churchill had ordered Athenia sunk by British forces, to make a new Lusitania incident and drag the U.S. again into...
...constitutional amendment to permit increase of the debt limit from $250,000 to $50 or $100 million. Last week it was fairly clear that no such amendment would be put on the ballot, and that Michigan Republicans were perfectly happy to let Williams figure a way out of a mess for which they considered him responsible...
...strewn Jane Eyre. The hero (Yul Brynner) is a gloomy and passionate young man. The heroine (Joanne Woodward) is his ward, a gay young sprig on a rotten family tree. The Compsons have been drunk for a couple of generations, and have long since sold their birthright for a mess of corn liquor. The only thing left is the peeling old plantation house, and there the last of the Compsons live on the charity of the hero, who has become a Compson by adoption and is determined to redeem the family name...
...There are crises when people lose their skeletons and dwindle to a mess of unresolved aims, regrets, opportunities." And it is in such crises that the aimless look hungrily around in search of men who dazzle, hypnotize, even defraud them by sheer audacity. That is the text of British Novelist Peter Vansittart's latest novel (his first to be published in the U.S. was The Game and The Ground-TIME, May 6, 1957). Orders of Chivalry is witty, satirical, and one of the toughest, most trenchant novels to come out of Britain in recent years. Author Vansittart (38-year...