Word: purlieus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southern oratory is not very impressive to David L. Cohn. Born in Mississippi, an alumnus of the Universities of Virginia and Yale, Cohn has explored the purlieus of American love "from living room, bedroom, and bathroom" to lovelorn columns and women's magazines. And he has reached the most jaundiced conclusions...
Some bad luck after the bank holiday cost Frank Cohen a good deal of his fortune, but when war began he was still a wealthy man. He was also known in the more anonymous purlieus of Wall Street as a smart man with a dollar. That is why, in May 1940, he was sought out by a group of promoters and engineers led by Raymond Voyes (formerly of Bofors) and Ferdinand V. Huber (freelance gun merchant). More or less at liberty, they thought it would be a good time to get back into the munitions business...
Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's giant-wheeled, 55-ft. "snow cruiser," which is expected to straddle crevasses and galumph over the vast white fields of the Antarctic, ran into a peck of trouble in the crowded purlieus of civilization (TIME, Nov. 6). Last week the North Star was anchored in the Bay of Whales, Little America's port of entry, and the snow cruiser was in sight of the broad antarctic plains. But its troubles were not yet over...