Word: shading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshmen freezing in the shade...
Addressing a Hallowe'en editorial to the subject of Hallowe'en is a shade short of the quintessence of novelty...
Last week, on King George VI's orders, they got a much mellower substitute stanza, although the first and fourth lines still had a shade of condescension. Appropriately enough, the new verse's first official appearance was at a national service of intercession for the United Nations in St. Paul's Cathedral, with the King, Queen and Clement Attlee heading the congregation : Nor on this land alone -But be God's mercies known From shore to shore. Lord, make the nations see That men should brothers be, And form one family The wide world...
...since the advent of the "Common Man" has there been a political catchword that con compare in ambiguous anonymity with the nebulous, oft praised, oft maligned, but seldom defined character-the American Liberal. At different times and in different countries the term "liberal" has connected almost every conceivable shade of political opinion. But regardless of its etymological history, the word can be properly applied to a definite American political philosophy. Although it has been bandied about with an appalling lack of discrimination, it is, in this year of our Lord, 1946, a satisfactory label for a certain group of Americans...
Dignitaries from all over called at 41 Mount Auburn Street yesterday to pay their respects to The Bird as it was turning a shade greener in the first drizzle to tickle its pin-feathers in many a moon...