Word: observerer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One observer of M.S.I.'s seance remarked indelicately: "Well, you can't raise the dead without raising a smell."
A major difficulty at first was infertile eggs. As every barnyard observer knows, mating roosters need their wings for balance. Baumann's early wingless roosters were so unstable that often only some 10% of the eggs would hatch at all. Baumann sometimes used artificial insemination. Eventually nature solved the...
The late Gertrude Stein was talking (in 1939) about a dapper British baronet who also happened to be an artist and close friend of hers: Sir Francis Cyril Rose. Coming from the shrewd old observer who had "discovered" Picasso, Stein's praise was a big boost for Rose'...
The Israelis argue that the Arab refugees would create a potential fifth column in their young state. They point with alarm to thinly veiled references in Arab newspapers to the "coming second round" (i.e., of the Palestine war). The Israeli offer to admit some of the refugees provided they can...
Wrote the Observer's C.A. Lejeune, in the New York Times: "The studios in and around London are tending to be come more & more a back lot for Hollywood." Almost all the major made-in-England films now coming up, Critic Lejeune noted, have a hands-across-the-sea...