Word: queue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puppet of warlords scheming to restore monarchy in China. When he grew up he became a puppet of the Japs, for whom he "ruled" conquered Manchuria. Only once in his 40-year lifetime had Henry Pu-yi ever used his own initiative: at 16, he cut off his own queue when his eunuch barber refused to commit such a sacrilege...
...addressing an elegant, perfumed gathering of Tory women in London. Viscountess Davidson proudly told how one of her party helpers had used an effective line to discredit Labor's program. When the "No More Fish" sign went up after an hour's wait in a fish queue, this bright Tory had said sarcastically to the angry women: "Well, never mind, ladies. What does it matter?-we own the Bank of England...
Herdbound. In Philadelphia, when U.S. District Court jurors lined up to march back to the courthouse after lunch, 100 passersby, thinking it a nylon queue, fell in behind...
...Over at the streetcar queue police fired into the air, driving commuters into a panic. Police got excited and clubbed Commies and non-Commies alike. Ambulances were almost as thick as taxicabs. Right in the middle of all this I ran into an American named Weeks who had just arrived. 'My,' said Mr. Weeks, 'Rio is an exciting place...
...audience's obvious favorite was Mattie Lou Pollard, 13, who goes to a one-room schoolhouse in Thomaston, Ga. and has had only one teacher all her life. (She lost on anarchy.) Third-place winner, Leslie Dean, 12, of Hawthorne, N.J., flunked on asceticism. Other toughies: hypotenuse, covenants, queue, knavery, cataclysm, colander, staccato, abscess...