Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beards & Matches. In the afternoons, he prowled around the base, dressed in a tan slack suit whose rayon trousers bore a conspicuous patch. Evenings, there was "paper work" (poker) in the commandant's white, jalousied house which serves as the Little White House. By 10 o'clock Harry Truman was in bed. Clark Clifford, who padded around barefoot sporting a three-day beachcomber's beard, explained contentedly, "We're getting more fun out of just sitting. My feet are getting so tough I can light a match on them...
Seminars are the other specially-planned feature of a Nieman Year. Each week a member of the Faculty prepares a paper or leads a roundtable on his field. The beer and cheese of the Faculty Club--seene of the every-Tuesday sessions--has provoked what many Niemans consider the finest talk of their time here. The Fellows pick their speakers from Faculty, administration, and a few outside sources...
...oversized clerical collar pecked away at a portable typewriter. From time to time he paused to knock the ashes out of his pipe against the fireplace or consult one of the fat books stacked on the massive antique table before him. At last he stood up, pulled the paper from his typewriter and closed his reference books with a ceremonious bang. His nine-year labor was finished. Monsignor Ronald Knox had completed his translation of the Catholic Bible...
...Apparently by coincidence, the Russian news paper Meditsinsky Rabotnic (Medical Worker) chose last week to attack U.S. bread, praise Soviet bread. It bad-guessed that the U.S. Government would not forbid treating flour with such harmful chemicals as Agene because "such a way out is unsuited to the trust-owners - real bosses...
WINE, WOMEN AND WORDS (295 pp.) -Billy Rose-Simon & Schuster ($3 cloth, $1 paper...