Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fish, one of 531 taken by sportsmen based at Wedgeport during the season, fought for one hour and 45 minutes before Sharp boated it with a 39-thread line...
Veteran tuna fishermen from all over the northeast had to bow to Rodman A. Sharp '51 recently when he handed the season's biggest fish--an 850-pound bluefin at Wedgeport, Nova Scotia...
Whatever its resemblances to Williams' other plays, the play he meant to write in Slimmer and Smoke is easy to approve of. The only trouble is, he has not written it. It remains only a lucid diagram. Summer and Smoke has moments of sad, sharp insight, but little coherence and intensity as a whole. The reason is partly structural. In none of his plays has Tennessee Williams made a classic frontal assault on drama. Writing episodically, with tricks of stagecraft and a crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry...
...immediate paper profit for Crosby was around $138,000. The chances for long-range profit looked even better, for Jock Whitney has shown a sharp eye for picking and financing winners.* Whitney got into the frozen juice business through National Research Corp., a war-boomed company that licenses the process by which Vacuum Foods concentrates and freezes the juice. When mixed with three parts of water, the frozen juice is the closest thing yet to fresh-squeezed juice...
Lunch at home with his wife is a leisurely, almost time-wasting meal, in a spacious dining room from whose walls handsome young Lieut. Lee looks down. At 2 :30 sharp he is in bed. At 3 (he wakes himself almost on the dot) he begins his "second day." From his attic bedroom he steps into his study for 2½ solid hours of work on Washington. Here visitors, and even his family, are forbidden. On the walls are autographed pictures of his friends Winston Churchill and Admiral Nimitz, a letter from President Roosevelt thanking Freeman for suggesting the term...