Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embargoed against Japan is oil. In the past Japan has bought about 75% of her oil from the U. S.; in the future she may get none. Last week Japan's eagerness to find other sources for oil before the U. S. gusher goes dry gave rise to two mysterious stories...
Last week Sculptor Epstein published his autobiography under an Old-Testament title Let There Be Sculpture (G. P. Putnam's Sons; $5). The book roared like a thwarted bull, and with as little humor. It told little about Sculptor Epstein and his dramatic rise from Manhattan's lower East Side, much about his work. Getting back at his critics, Epstein flayed the "wretched lot of logrollers, schemers, sharks, opportunists, profiteers, snobs, parasites, sycophants, camp followers, social climbers and . . . fourflushers [who] infest the world of art-this jungle into which the artist is forced periodically to bring his work...
...past five years have seen the rise of at least ten big swing bands. In those bands, from time to time, have been featured some of the finest musicians in the game. Record companies have been doing a land-office business, not only with the name bands, but also with small combination that give the soloists more opportunity to "get off." Private companies have collected many groups of men carefully selected for their ability to play together, and their music has been put on records. On other words, recorded jazz has become a small industry since...
...unpredictable spouse has had a large new flagstone laid there. It will not make him feel any better to see on the stone some huge three-toed tracks, a foot or more long. Nobody will have to tell him they are dinosaur tracks-his atavistic hackles will rise at the sight. Inside the house (if his wife has really been doing her stuff) he will be confronted with another petrified spoor, set in a vertical slab under the mantelpiece. At that point in will bounce his wife, to inform him that the footprints are indeed dinosaur tracks, real dinosaur tracks...
Mott admits that his aceustoined time of "retiring to court the favors of Morphous" was 12 or 1 o'clock, and that he finds it "the most difficult thing to the world to rise at a proper built in the morning...