Word: pincushions
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Manhattan had seen him first (TIME, Oct. 27). One look at his pincushion shape, outsize ears, spriggy elephant trunk, wistful bemused expression, and 350,000 New Yorkers (to date) took him to their cosmopolitan bosoms...
Last week Winston Churchill revealed one of his post-war aims. Answering a question in Parliament (whose meeting-place is now secret), he told how he expected to restore that Victorian-Gothic pincushion, the House of Commons, whose interior was gutted by seven Nazi bombs (TIME, May 19). Declared the Prime Minister: "I cannot conceive that anyone would wish to make the slightest structural alteration in the House of Commons other than perhaps some improvement in the system of ventilation or some minor readjustments for accommodation in the galleries, not affecting the size, shape and character of the building...
...caught me. There is an empty chair over by that wall-eyed good He's got a book in his lap and his staring out the window. What is he staring at? The top of the pillars? Say, they've got nails stuck in all over them like a pincushion! What a dirty trick to play on the pigeons! Why shouldn't they build a nest over the steps if they want .... Oh, of course...
...remarkable menagerie is not the only feature of the room. On the lampshades are written laws of physics. A large pincushion has sticking out of it numerous pins of different length. The length of the pins represents the distance of the planets from the earth, and the size of the pinheads is as nearly as possible relative to the sizes of the planets, though it was impossible to carry this plan to completion...