Word: paperweight
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...McLendon refers to himself as "the old Scotchman" and, on the air, makes himself out to be a contemporary of octogenarian Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics. Admiring fans send him gifts they think appropriate to his years, including a set of false teeth which he uses as a paperweight...
...does a swan dive off a bar, sees bottles light up, hears a cash register strike up a tune. Actress Hayes is hardly a born vaudevillian, but she makes what is clumsy about her also seem comical; and she romps through her new role with the gusto of a paperweight that suddenly finds itself a pinwheel...
...Chinese Christians," thinks Mr. Barnett, "can teach Americans a lot." A symbol of their spirit is the paperweight on his Manhattan desk - a fragment of the bomb with which a Japanese plane com pletely destroyed the big Y auditorium at Chungking two days before he got there last June. Though Chungking's Y has now been bombed five times, the work goes on regardless. Says its dogged Chinese general secretary: "They may destroy all our buildings, but they can't destroy...
...into the home of some eccentric country gentleman. Like as not he would be sniffed by a bird dog. On the reception table is sometimes a bag of quail. The stenographer keeps her clips and pins in a dry-fly box. The bookkeeper uses a dipsy (sinker) for a paperweight...
...Zealand journalists foregathered at Dunedin to honor Russell Owen, returning Byrd expedition newspaperman. They gave him a paperweight made of New Zealand greenstone, surmounted by a silver model of the Kiwi (New Zealand bird with rudimentary wings useless for flying), toasted him "the only newspaperman in the world who has covered assignments in both Polar regions...