Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Museums. Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, of India, reminded his listeners that misunderstandings work both ways: "The barbarians think we are barbarians." UNESCO's Bernard Drzewieski, a pint-sized Pole, pointed up UNESCO's need: "In some parts of Greece and Poland there are 50 kids to one pencil." But Drzewieski himself had trouble with one small cultural barrier: he attributed the dream of "the new city of Friends" to "Walter" Whitman...
There was considerable doubt among Fred's superiors that he was worth the money. He spent most of his time with an inkwell on his chin, a pencil on his nose, and four or five books flying from hand to hand. When not so occupied, he would shatter the institution's leathern hush by bawling: "Say, did you hear about the man who dreamed he was eating Shredded Wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone...
When Sam got into the contracting business, he had had so little schooling that he could hardly read contracts. But that did not bother him. As he once said: "What the hell, I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-&-paper work." Now he can read well enough for his purposes: he just skips the big words...
Pointing out that devastated schools are so under-equipped that in many cases there is only one pencil for over 40 pupils, he contrasted these conditions with our own, where community appropriations are sufficient to equip students...
...turn-of-the-century sobsister whose New York World stories on the Lizzie Borden hatchet-murder trial were the sensation of the day; in Manhattan. Close friend of Henry James, Mark Twain, she "discovered" Sinclair Lewis, bought his first novel (for Harper & Bros.), edited him with a heavy blue pencil...