Word: openwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others settled into familiar attitudes-little Justices Black and Frankfurter, alert and quick of eye, just able to peer over the back of the high mahogany bench; Murphy with a starched, far-off look; Jackson with his openwork, Dutch expression; Rutledge rocklike, Reed massive and heavy-jowled, Harold Burton with an air of avuncular interest. The court began to hand out what is promised by the marble figures on the wall: Divine Inspiration, Justice, Wisdom and Truth...
Louise graduated from Simmons College in Boston, a tidy, short, shirtwaisted feminist bundle of aggressive restlessness. She did research on constructive juvenile activities for a neurasthenic Yale professor until the professor's wife, objecting, among other things, to the openwork yoke of Louise's shirtwaist, fired her. New Haven's lights "were bright and made a glow in the sky. The engines in its factories throbbed and hummed. ... It was breath-catching. Home was a million miles away. This was the maelstrom of life...
...Master Mariner, certified to command any ship of any size anywhere in sail or steam. But when in World War I the Royal Navy drafted him at 32, it did not put him on the bridge of a warship. Instead, he found himself on the "front porch" of an openwork biplane, learning to fly, then teaching himself the dangerous art of taking off from the deck of a merchantman. From this kind of makeshift carrier, Flight Commander Bowhill flew on the first bombing against the German Navy in World...