Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of a fire to put it out." While I have long suspected that some doctors simply buried their mistakes, I had hoped that psychiatrists at least analyzed theirs. Did the good doctor ever try to put out an oil fire the same way he'd douse a paper...
...gates were opened and the crowd swirled around the train. Someone handed the President a copy of an early election-night edition of the Truman-hating Chicago Tribune with a banner line: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, and he held up the paper to the crowd, grinning...
...have always regarded a good innkeeper as a real benefactor to the community," wrote the Rev. E. A. Newman, vicar of Hythe in Kent, in his parish paper, "and a well-run inn ... as a useful and necessary amenity. I suppose it is true to say that all through our history the two chief meeting places of the community have been the church and the inn. Indeed there should not be antagonism between them, and it is foolish narrow-mindedness that makes people think a pub to be a wicked place. Its purpose is to encourage fellowship and happiness, surely...
...York Times Book Review, "I'm just a writer. Not a literary man . . ." And all those book reviews made things awkward around home (Oxford, Miss.): " 'Why look here,' they'll say, 'Bill Faulkner's gone and got his picture in the New York paper.' So they come around and try to borrow money, figuring I've made a million dollars . . ." The old days, before success came, sometimes look pretty good to Faulkner: "I was a free man. Had one pair of pants, one pair of shoes, and an old trench coat with...
...press going to profit by its lesson? Already, here & there., the process of rationalizing the error had begun. And the soreheads were getting in their licks. Wrote the New York Daily News's John O'Donnell (who had first asked to have the paper's lady astrologist assigned to the Washington bureau) : "O.K., they were all wrong (most definitely, including this writer) on the Truman election. So what? So were the voters who elected Truman." Sneered George Sokolsky: "Truman gave out during the campaign, becoming boisterous and vulgar. Some say that he made votes for himself that...