Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agents. "Well," one of them murmured, "if Ellen insists, I suppose we could steal a day from Venice to take in Portofino, but where will that leave our two days in Zurich?" In Hannover, Heidelberg and Hamm, German mothers wrapped the last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where in the family Volkswagen. Dutchmen and Danes by the thousands were leaving their lowland homes for a brief, refreshing holiday in Germany's nearby mountains. Mountain-bred Swiss were flocking to the gently rolling hill country...
...Then came the topper: "a special, never-to-be-forgotten present"-an Esther Williams swimming pool. The benediction: "This is the National Broadcasting television network." Afterward, burly stagehands struck the chapel set and carted off the china and silverware, leaving the guests to eat their wedding cake off paper towels...
...Roman Catholic majority in Fethard-on-the-Sea did not wait. Toward the end of May an anonymous letter appeared in the Dublin Irish Times: "I wonder is your paper aware of the trouble and worry which is being suffered by the Protestant people of Fethard as a result of this case. They are being ostracized, their shops (two of them) are completely boycotted, their children without a school. The teacher of the Protestant school is a Roman Catholic and was threatened with stoning if she continued to teach...
...circulation for the first time with its August 10 issue, Presbyterian Life announced proudly last week that it now reaches the "largest number of Christians assembled in one list since the birth of Jesus." Apace with the resurgence of religion in the U.S., the church-sponsored, slick-paper biweekly in less than ten years has grown into the world's biggest paid-circulation religious magazine and has helped to make sweeping changes in the economics and editorial approach of religious journalism...
Type Casting. Off the bottle at last and on the Examiner rewrite desk, the old pro was a candidate for city editor of Hearst's No. 3 paper (after the New York Mirror, New York Journal-American) within a year. Department heads protested in unison against promoting "that old s.o.b.," but the Examiner's Publisher George Young pronounced: "It's Richardson. That's what that job down there needs...