Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prince has never given up his pursuit of those pleasures. As a dapper, rakish fin de siècle student at the Sorbonne, he got the nickname Cur Non (Why Not?) because of his debonair pursuit of food and fun. (He added the "sky" a few years later when the Czar's fine fleet came to visit France.) In 1921, already famed as a gourmet, he began to write his masterpiece, France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes. "When you're searching for good places to eat in provincial towns," wrote Curnonsky, "see the doctors, the cabdrivers and the priests...
...says Chalmers, U.S. thinking in general was hopelessly adrift. It had degenerated into a superficial sentimentalism, dominated "by wishes which were taken for facts" and by "the widespread conviction . . . that evil does not really exist in individuals, but arises only because of bad arrangements among them." In their blind pursuit of objectivity, scholars had become as indifferent to values as scientists, and semanticists had concluded that "ideas behind words are so varying and inconstant that all we really have left at any time is names." All in all, it was the era of the abolished absolute: men had forgotten that...
...Warrior. Ritchie-Hook is anything but a saint. Like many a Crusader, he fights simply because he loves "blood and gunpowder." Hand-to-hand scrapping is his ideal: "Everything else [in war]," he assures Guy, "is just bumf and telephones." His pursuit of his ideal has left him with "a single, terrible.eye . . . black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing...
...news when it first started publication. Almost 30 years ago, Communist Leader Alexis Rykov appeared on the cover (TIME, July 14, 1924). Said the story: "When Kerensky was overthrown, Rykov and his time-proved friend Lenin went on hand in hand, for better or for worse, in pursuit of the aims of Communism...
Using all the situations that have won it enthusiastic listeners in four years as a top-rated radio show, Miss Brooks presents Schoolteacher Eve Arden in hot pursuit of a biologist who appears more interested in frogs than in girls. Also on hand for laughs: a hot-tempered principal, an absent-minded landlady, two nitwit teenagers...