Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those of us who have attended Bread Loaf School about a mile up the road from Homer Noble Farm, the article and picture served as a sort of reunion with both that lovely mountain-girt country and the remarkable Robert Frost . . . My friends and fellow students of other years at Bread Loaf will long remember his puckish wit and astounding erudition on any subject. An afternoon talk with Frost in his tiny cabin set up the hillside from the Noble house, his shepherd dog Gillie lying by the fire and appearing to listen as his master talks of a variety...
...official count four days later gave the government's middle-of-the-road Party of Revolutionary Institutions a sweeping victory. It won all but one of the 147 seats at stake in the Chamber of Deputies. Not even the opposition parties expected much else. For most Mexicans, the election's greatest significance was the proof it offered that their country, after years of mixing blood with ballots, was finally reaching political maturity...
...those Americans who thought Red China could be "neutralized" by friendly treatment, Mao had an answer: "We also oppose the illusion of a third road. Not only in China, but also in the world, without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is a camouflage...
Earthy Novelist Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell flew back from a two month junket on which he tried to use up some of his frozen royalties in twelve European countries. He liked Italy best, but thought the natives were getting fed up with U.S. visitors. Reported Caldwell: Rome is so overrun with the Hollywood crowd that street peddlers who sidle up to tourists with furtive propositions no longer peddle postcards or addresses. Now they whisper: "I've got a script...
Into the Parlor. Last year Olsen & Johnson invaded Europe to satisfy a lifetime ambition to play in Scandinavia (Olsen is of Norwegian descent; Johnson, Swedish). They were so successful in London that the show never got to the Continent. One Hellzapoppin road company is still in England; another is touring New Zealand. Both men have invested their huge earnings (they grossed $227,000 in 16 nights in Chicago; $387,000 in 14 days in Toronto) in real estate and in such enterprises as a string of frozen-custard stands on Long Island and an ice-skating rink in California...