Word: neatest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Newby does the neatest possible job with his plot. His comic characters, such as the Pasha and his wife, are all the more comic because they are described affectionately, tolerantly, almost respectfully. The blurb's comment that The Picnic "might have been called a comic Passage to Egypt" proves to be at least half true, because Author Newby knows to perfection the Forster art of speaking softly. Unlike his master, however, he has not the brute strength to carry a big stick...
Confusion. Here, as recorded by Reporter Salisbury, the tour produced the neatest bit of confusion since Lou Costello asked Bud Abbott, "Who's on first?" The Met's American Gallery Curator Robert B. Hale explained to Molotov's interpreter, Oleg Troyanovsky, that The Flying Box was the work of 27-year-old John Hultberg (TIME, May 2), an "expressionist-abstractionist." The painter, Hale added, was once a guard at the Metropolitan. Troyanovsky translated to Molotov: "He was formerly of the avant-garde...
...wings drooping, rolled into its parking area, and the pilot cut its whining engines. When the crew climbed out, the base commander was on hand to greet them, but only to commiserate. An incomplete mission is a sad affair with the new Air Force. The pilot had executed the neatest feat of the day-a perfect instrument landing, but this meant only that the crew would have to go back up next day to complete the training it had missed...
...philosophy, says Lynd. is now controlled by a bunch of professional overlords who have "copper-riveted one of the neatest bureaucratic machines ever created by any professional group in any country anywhere since the priesthood of ancient Egypt. In nearly every state today, a teacher or principal cannot go to work in a public school without a certificate or license, which can be obtained only by taking courses under a Faculty of Education. When the new teacher gets his first job, he has only begun his vassalage to these superprofessionals. In a great many communities, salary schedules are so rigged...
...Trade and soon tangled with the railroads over discriminatory freight rates. He never asked for or received a fee in these freight-rate cases. "It is a good, steady job without pay," he wrote philosophically. Described on an 1889 list of eligible bachelors as an "antimonopoly agitator" with the "neatest mustache in Lincoln," Dawes fluttered the hearts of the local belles. But his own heart belonged then, and for the next 62 years, to Caro Blymyer, a dark-eyed Cincinnati girl who was a direct descendant of Miles Standish...