Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squarely on top of his head, a cigar grew out of the right corner of his mouth, and he glinted at the world through rimless, hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster, London clubman, stage designer, critic of architecture (Pillar to Post...
...article: "On arriving in New York after an absence of nine years, I found that I had been propagating a version of the typical American which was founded on a hopelessly out-of-date model. The old self-confident, easily bamboozled, back-slapping persona is a figure of the past...
...deal gives Curtis a solid lodgment in the prospering field of shelter magazines. Catering to the middle-brow homebody and thriving on the postwar trend to do-it-yourself, American Home has picked up 800,000 new readers over the past ten years. The Meredith Publishing Co.'s Better Homes and Gardens has done even better, adding 1,200,000 readers in ten years to reach a circulation of 4,379,237. In advertising revenue Better Homes now ranks sixth among all national magazines, American Home a solid 16th...
...faster jets will mean smaller airline fleets and thus fewer jobs unless they win the third-man spot. But the history of air travel has proved that each new advance inevitably leads to new increases all around. Case in point: the A.L.P.A. itself, whose membership has doubled in the past six years, despite the introduction into service of dozens of bigger and faster planes...
Admit it: Class Day Exercises are one big nothing. Now in the past, it was another story. Then people could laugh spontaneously and horse around a bit; they could enjoy themselves, indulge in inanities, and afterwards feel no remorse...