Word: palms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Medford, where practice was held last year, horse hoofs have left a powder-dry dust ankle deep. The once well-cared-for track is now filled with jagged rocks and flat spaces come no bigger than the palm of your hand. The Cambridge golf course has proved too hilly, and to top it all off, Mikkola can't even find an adequate means of transporting his runners from place to place during practice...
After their 1914 wedding in Hoboken, N.J., Billie discovered that Ziegfeld wore long, silk, peach-colored underwear, which she quickly threw away. But life went on being brightly colored. Ziegfeld liked to tear off to Palm Beach to play roulette. He won or lost $50,000 at a sitting, would say "Go away, dear," when "I tiptoed in to plead with him in whispers." He insisted on traveling in private railroad cars, and when their daughter Patty was six, Ziegfeld bought her a 250-lb. elephant (he had already stocked their Hastings-on-Hudson estate with two lion cubs...
...monuments the Reds have been building in Berlin, and certainly surpassed the obelisks, as characterless as paperweights, with which they have dotted Eastern Europe in the past two years. Instead of a tank, or a bust of Stalin, it featured a high-breasted, neoclassic lady holding a king-size palm leaf 42 feet above her bare bronze toes...
Upstairs & Downstairs. Members of the U.S. colony in Budapest have dubbed the statue "the Tobacco Auctioneer." Hungarians say she holds the victory palm aloft because the grim, 18-ft. figure of a Russian soldier that stands below her on the pedestal might steal it. But these cracks fail to bother De Strobl. "The figure upstairs," he explains, "is international. The figure downstairs is Russian. Many Russians lost their lives here, after...
Maxwell House has resorted to a human stooge who tries, unsuccessfully, to balance six bags (the product's publicized blends) on his palm. When he fails, he is handed a can of Maxwell House with the triumphant assurance that all the blends are perfectly balanced...