Word: pint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author of the plan is pint-sized, vitriolic Clarence Budington Kelland, G.O.P. National Committeeman from Arizona, longtime fictioneer for the Saturday Evening Post (Sugarfoot, Arizona), onetime tub-thumping isolationist (Pearl Harbor changed his mind). A bitter-end Republican, he caused a rumpus in Manhattan's famed Dutch Treat Club by stating, in May 1940, that the Fifth Column in America was headed "by that fellow in the White House...
Where Is the Flaw? The picture was further brightened by the signing last week of a trade treaty with Chile which took a long step toward the establishment of a customs union between the two countries. Pint-sized but patrician Foreign Minister Joaquin Fernandez himself signed the treaty in the course of a gala visit to Buenos Aires, during which relations strained by Chile's abandonment of neutrality seven months ago were cemented...
...patient who vomits a little blood may simply have ruptured a small blood vessel after prolonged retching; if he really has a gastric hemorrhage from ulcer, he is likely to gush a pint of blood...
Edgar Bergen bought himself a two-cell jail with running water and electric lights. For a $10,000 war bond bid at a Hollywood auction, he acquired the pint-size pokey from a young man who had got it by error for $1.50 at a tax sale (TIME, July 12). Bergen did not say what he was going to do with his plum, which lies in Harvard...
...many a big-city newspaperman is a small-town newspaper all his own. For 99%, it remains a dream. One of the one-percenters is Theodore Friend, 45. Last week he gave up his job on the New York Mirror to go west to publish the Lassen Advocate-a pint-sized (cir. 2,100), 78-year-old weekly in Susanville, Calif...