Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready for another change of scene. He went off for a cruise on the Williamsburg, but not just to revel in the first signs of spring in the wooded hills along the Potomac. With him went his three White House secretaries, his labor adviser, John R. Steelman, and a pile of official reports...
First, a blonde show girl took a bath on stage. Then the announcer was hung by his heels from the rafters. At other times, paisanos kept things moving by eating through ten pounds of gelatin or gobbling up a pile of flour. Last week, two months after it began, Albricias y Sorpresas (Prizes & Surprises) had become the most popular of Mexico's 20 radio giveaways...
...same at his radio show, whether he is broadcasting from New York or Hollywood. While Danny mimics and mugs through his half-hour program and a 40-minute post-broadcast show, girls pile presents on the stage. To show his appreciation, he reads mooncalf poems written to him by idolatrous bobby-soxers, mugs outrageously, or falls offstage with studied indifference...
Presumably this was meant to imply that if the building had been more modern the League might never have foundered. Four arch-conservative architects had won the Geneva competition, pooled their resources to design the cumbersomely classic stone pile which was finally finished in 1938-when there was no longer much use for it. But the "rightful winners," according to the Museum, were Frenchmen Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, who had proposed a terraced glass-and-concrete palace in the strictest "functional" tradition. This time, urged the Museum, the UNO planners should "learn from Geneva and select an international jury...
...candidate was given a pile of construction material. With the help of two assistants, he was to complete a structure within ten minutes. The two "helpers" were stumblebum stooges, master tacticians at noncooperation and delay. What the psychiatrists wanted to see: how the candidate reacted to frustration...