Word: palling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moses, his first Old Testament novel, should be another bestseller, even though it contains little to scandalize anybody. Novelist Asch does try to rationalize a few of the Pentateuch stories, e.g., the "pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night" becomes a pall of light-refracting dust raised by the tramping Israelites and their cattle. Yet nothing can dim the essential grandeur of Moses and his mission...
...navy held all of south Bangkok. Army and police were in control of the north, while air force trainers, fitted with improvised bomb racks, fought a desperate duel with navy ships in the river for command of the west side's dockyards and fuel depots. A black pall spread over the city as a bomb struck square on a fuel depot. At one point, the navy sent out an amphibious landing force, only to see it wiped out from the air. An air-force bomb caught the Sri Ayuthia. Fire broke out on board and the ship began...
Requiem Mass for Eddie Collins was held at the Church of the Advent yesterday. Tom Yawkey, owner of the Red Sox, Will Harridge, president of the American League, and Stuffy McInnis and Jack Barry, two of Collins' teammates in the $100,000 infield, were pall bearers. Mayor Hynes, former Governor Curley, and other notables were present...
...Fifth, Pall Mall, put out by a subsidiary of American Tobacco. Pall Mall made the most spectacular gain, boosting sales 38.2% to 23.5 billion cigarettes, thereby pushing Old Gold (P. Lorillard) out of fifth place...
...great deal said, and more understood, about what people are really like. The querulousness of old age, the cunning and hardness underneath girlish innocence, the selfishness that sparks a lot of human behavior, good and bad, are all explored without an explicit statement about any of them. Even the pall of living under an unimaginative socialist regime is understood without being underscored...