Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stationery store quoted a 33 percent rise in wholesale notebook prices, and its owner worriedly predicted a further increase. Priority restrictions were damned by several men, who complained bitterly that they were having trouble getting metal goods. Chlorine, used in paper bleaching, is not now easily available for that purpose and future paper may have a slightly greyish appearance...
...years ago, he used to take long hikes along the Hudson River Palisades, and wrote a New York Walk Book. He still chops wood, goes for long jaunts. A regular visitor at important medical meetings, Dr. Dickinson is usually seen with a pencil poised over a well-worn black notebook, looking intently at the speaker. He is not taking notes; he is sketching a profile...
Radio listeners last week heard a piece of music inspired by a baseball team. Lean, drawly Composer Robert Russell Bennett, who in his youth was a semi-pro ballplayer, played a new Symphony in D for the Dodgers on his WOR-Mutual program, Russell Bennett's Notebook. To the Dodgers and their music-loving President Larry MacPhail, the symphony was a great comfort. Although they were still out in front in the National League, they had just lost a game in Pittsburgh, which ended a seven-game winning streak...
...took a deep breath and let it out in a slow sigh. He closed the history text and pushed away the notebook. Those were the days, he thought. The Renaissance, the rebirth of an old culture and the birth of a new one; that was the time when he should have lived. He would certainly have been another Da Vinci, an artist at everything. He could see himself now; architect, inventor, poet--Vag leaned back perilously in his chair--the full man. What chance did he have today--the chair jerked forward again--in a regimented world where...
...boiling, Bennett has written-under the name of Robert Russell Bennett-an Abraham Lincoln Symphony, an opera, Maria Malibran, the fountain-&-fireworks music of the late New York World's Fair, many another serious piece. Now he can play the like of them on Russell Bennett's Notebook...