Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sentence that reads the same, forward or backward. Famed example: "Able was I ere I saw Elba" (apocryphally attributed to Napoleon...
That was enough for the summer-becalmed tabloids. They sailed into the story with shrieks of joy and thankful indignation. They were sure they saw squads of scantily clad models, actresses and whatnots, running in & out of New York and Hollywood bars, house parties, nightclubs, swimming pools, hotels-hotly pursued by grinning generals and Government administrators. Was this any way for generals to behave...
...they all saw pretty much the same things: animals, flowers, the games they played, the houses they lived in. By the existence of these pictures, the world was a happy, highly colored, marvelous place...
...fortnight ago at Jacob's Pillow, students saw a trial run of four of his new sketches: Weidman mugging and leaping grandly as the "owl who was God," or the harried male of The Shrike and the Chipmunks. Weidman hopes to dance the Fables on Broadway. Says he: "I'm not one of those arty people who think the dance is sacred...
...simple. Yet it is some of the most beautiful furniture ever produced in the U.S. Their solid brick houses and great barns also have an austere beauty. Though Shakers had little use for book-learning, they were inventors. In an ecstatic vision, Shaker Sister Sarah Babbitt invented the buzz saw. Shakers are credited with inventing the one-horse shay. At a time when the quality of garden seeds was poor, Shakers gained a virtual monopoly of the seed business by the purity and vitality of their seeds...