Word: pass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editor's bride is a born troublemaker. At her earliest opportunity she makes a pass at Wilde and never afterward forgives him for not tumbling. She high-pressures her guileless husband into a political career and into sabotaging his old friend's political prospects. She unearths and exploits the Wilde-Baxter love affair. She is clearly not the kind of woman who is useful around any town, and in the long run people find her out. After that, they live, more or less happily, ever after...
...friends in Bath. But now one hardly knows anyone." Echoed a Bath specialist: "In a few years Bath will become so crowded and impossible that any person of quality will naturally go abroad for treatment." Was Beau Nash turning in his grave? Probably not; he used to pass his six-quart beaver among the swells to collect money for a mineral-water hospital available to all comers...
Because this route cannot be kept free of snow in winter, an alternative line through Yellowhead Pass (3,717 ft.) has vociferous boosters. So does a southerly route through Crowsnest Pass. To western provincial government, the important thing is the road, not the route...
Masquerader. He spent six months preparing to "pass." To stain his skin, he tried walnut juice, iodine, Argyrol, even an infusion of mahogany bark. When nothing worked, he shaved his pate and settled for three weeks in the Florida sun. Disguises were an old dodge to Reporter Sprigle, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1937) for uncovering Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black's past as a Ku Klux Klan member. Three years ago, elaborately roughed up as a black marketeer, he had exposed a meat-rationing scandal in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
...Paterson, Schindler seemed to hold back. Time after time, as Veteran Chauffeur Bob Disbrow* hugged the pole out front, Schindler drove his black Offenhauser up alongside him, stomped on the foot-throttle and seemed about to pass. And each time in turn he eased off, slid back into the second slot again. At the race's end, he was still second man. When Schindler pulled up, swung the stump of his left leg over the side and reached for his crutches, his fans showed their disappointment, but Bronco Bill did not. "There was oil on that track," he explained...