Word: pose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Always carry the daily papers when on the prowl early in the evening ... it looks like a person coming home from the office . . . wear Moose, Elks or K.C. ring . . . Pose as blind with dog and dark glasses while prowling . . . use white skins of eggs over eyeballs . . . Good clothes to be inconspicuous . . . live in best hotels ... It is easy to commit a crime, as the police never prevent ... Do not lose the sense of danger while prowling ... on the day a criminal decides he is smarter than the police, he moves that much closer ... to capture...
Arturo Toscanini was feeling fighting-fit after his vacation in Italy. Pink and rested on his arrival three weeks ago, he had even been persuaded to pose for photographers (who had promised not to use flashbulbs). He also arrived ready to carry out a promise made in Italy. Answering the request of his old friend (and NBC's general music director) Samuel Chotzinoff, he had cabled: "Accept Ridgefield. Make nice program." Last week, for the second time in two years, the maestro made a "nice program" for his favorite little U.S. town, and had the time of his life...
Referring to the statement that Harry Truman "obviously planned to be in it [the 1950 campaign] to the last whistlestop" [TIME, Sept. 19], and similar predictions in the daily papers from time to time, I would like to pose this question...
...added that the industrialization of East, Asia could pose a real threat to the standard of living of the Western nations...
...feature of the freshman issue, an annotated street map of Cambridge, the center spread is a scrawled but reasonably accurate picture of Scollay Square. The poetry and prose departments are lukewarm at best-the best being a nicely illustrated but overlong discussion of the Social Register by one Rex Pose. Perhaps the funniest part of this issue is the absence of all titles behind the names of the executive board on the masthead...