Word: paperweight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billy in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded...
ISSUN BOSHI, THE INCHLING by Momoko Ishii, illustrated by Fuku Akino (Walker; $3.50). Another old Japanese fable, handsomely illustrated. The hero is no bigger than a man's thumb and is resigned to life as a paperweight for a beautiful princess. But then he slays a dreadful demon, and guess what his reward is? A wish on a magic mallet transforms him into a full-size man and he marries the princess to live happily ever after...
...PURLOINED PAPERWEIGHT by P. G. Wodehouse. 188 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Quite true. Old Wodehouse-masters know it is equally fruitless to try to unravel the plot in one of his potty idyls. In this book, he sets out to tell the tale of a cuckoo American millionaire's efforts to steal an 18th century paperweight from an English manor house. What he also does in his incomparable way is to prove that, for a fellow who started effervescing back in the Edwardian era, he has a lot of bubble left in him yet. In fact, his fans will find that this book leaves P.G. about where he was before...
...President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 in May of 1940, reminding him "to bend his efforts toward securing peace and not war for America." More than 300 students signed the petition and sent with it a naval artillery shell, World War I vintage, for the President to use as a paperweight. The signers vowed "never, under any circumstances, to follow in the footsteps of the students...