Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highest court with added New Dealing justices, no man raised a louder voice for the White House enterprise than burly, boot-jawed "Shay" Minton. As a result of his signal service, he had been mentioned for just about every vacancy on the court that turned up in the past decade. But until Harry Truman broke the news last week, his name had hardly entered the speculation this time. Battle Cry. A son of poor parents, Shay Minton was born 58 years ago in the southern Indiana hill country called the "Knob" district, went to work when he was eight years...
...finished handily ahead of ten other candidates in the city's nonpartisan mayoralty primary, seemed a sure bet for election in November. An ex-salesman for the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., Cobo was called in to straighten out the city's rickety finances in 1933, for the past 16 years has been quietly building up a loyal following among Detroit's foreign-born groups. The runner-up, and Cobo's November rival: Harvard-trained Council President George Edwards, 35, a onetime organizer for the C.I.O.'s Auto Workers. Edwards will buck a tough precedent...
...Good history, he believed, was never all science; it had to be literature, too. To be read, it had to be fascinating; it was the duty of the historian to make it so. He could not do this without being himself part poet. For "in that strange relation of past and present, poetry is always inherent, even in . . . Greek potsherds and Roman stones, in Manor rolls and Parliamentary reports...
...exhibit-and sell-these glories, page after glossy page of models paraded past magazine readers. Historically, the model was the descendant of the come-on girl posted in front of a Midway show tent; socially, she ranked high above the chorus girl and not far below the movie star. In the bright parade, with the assurance of a duchess and the accomplished posturing of an actress, floated Lisa Fonssagrives. There was Lisa in a little black moire number (by Jacques Fath); there was Lisa invitingly recumbent in a black lace and taffeta ensemble (by Janet Taylor); there was Lisa wistfully...
...Birth of the Model. In the past century, America underwent a great economic revolution. Americans made more things, and created more power to create still more things, than all past ages put together. The force chiefly charged with selling this breathless, and sometimes choking, proliferation of wealth is advertising...