Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion he excited the sympathy of a group of people who saw him walking along the shore overlooking to bay. He was coat-less as usual; the thermometer read ten below. Mrs. Pound, who tells the story, was embarrassed to confess to the commiserators that the "poor man" was her husband, as she was swathed warmly in mink...
...week on the job, Billy asked for and got the job of organizing the Board's stenographic service. Soon he began spending nights at Baruch's house, taking dictation from the great man himself. The year in Washington was decisive for Billy's career. "I saw big men, the big tories, if you will, but big men, too. They talked tough, but they talked from information. I decided I wanted to be like them...
...cold glass eye of Ansel Adams' camera, however, recorded precisely what it saw. The results helped explain why, since the perfection of photography, artists have come to scorn "naturalism" in painting, and wandered off into the bypaths of impressionism, abstraction and surrealism. When it came to making unbelievable realities believable, the camera had it all over the brush...
Most turbulent cities: Chicago, "as full of crooks as a saw with teeth"; Kansas City, Mo., "the best boogie-woogie town" in the land, "a kind of middle-western Babylon...
Bawdiest city: Butte ("with the possible exception of Amarillo, Texas"). "Whole neighborhoods [in Butte] are moldy, whole streets are rotten and decaying. The bars are preposterous and prodigious. I saw grandmothers teaching six-year-old kids to play slot machines...