Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creamy, fair complexion, blue eyes, and white teeth (a shade oversize). She has neither her father's shy reserve nor her mother's dazzling charm. Last week, as she stood unobtrusively at her father's elbow, she frequently seemed plain bored. But those who looked sharp could catch an occasional rare smile, lighting her face like a searchlight, or see her knit her brow in sober perplexity over some paradox of Empire in an official's talk...
...scarves were phenomenal. They were 1947's chief fad everywhere. Another fad: "shorty" coats (known in some stores as "swallow tails"). In Chicago, Marshall Field's offered a shorty specialty which was going like hot cakes among teenagers: a "hot-jive jacket" of yellow plastic with such sharp legends as "Natch" and "Slick Chick" printed on it. The "slicker" days of the twenties were back...
...criticism in the Advocate's first issue is restricted to two recent American novels. Robert Crichton's review of "Under the Volcano" is sharp and convincing; he understands the shortcomings of the book and knows how to write about them. Austryn Wainhouse, reviewing Steinbeck's latest, writes well, but is hampered rather than helped by the superfluous toels of the professional reviewer...
...next week. Modern readers will miss the drums and tramplings of the King James version-but the simple, matter-of-fact English of Britain's witty, whodunit-writing Monsignor Ronald A. Knox (The Psalms, Sheed & Ward, $2) gives some of David's songs a sharp new applicability. Excerpt (Psalm...
...helped blow the lid off the Teapot Dome scandal), would test the talents of a Boswell. It is Grandfather (Uncle Henry) Wallace who steals the show. First a rebellious Presbyterian minister, later a farmer and outspoken farm-paper editor, Uncle Henry passed on his name but none of his sharp wit and little of his peppery common sense and talent for writing...