Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the faculty, five of whom are on leave of absence for the duration of the national emergency, are among the 96 scholars and artists who have been awarded $230,000 in fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation...
...Okinawa Kamikaze planes attacked in groups of two to six. Most of them were shot out of the air before they got close to their targets. One fell into the sea only 200 yards from the amphibious operations flagship carrying Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner and Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner. In one day of flaming air action the Japs lost 118 planes...
First Aims. General Buckner had been born for this job. His father, Simon Bolivar Buckner ST., named for the South American liberator, had served with distinction in the Mexican War and worn a lieutenant general's stars in the Confederate Army. As a brigadier he had been forced to surrender Fort Donelson to his old West Point classmate, U. S. Grant. But he was exchanged, twice promoted, and wound up the war still fighting...
...youngster grew up in a rugged, outdoor life, its setting the lovely, wooded country of rolling hills known in Kentucky as the "Pennyr'y'l." "I went barefooted," Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. has written, ''hunted, trapped, fished, swam, canoed, raised chickens, fought roosters, rode five miles daily for the mail, trained dogs, did odd farm jobs, learned not to eat green persimmons and occasionally walked eight miles to Munfordville to broaden my horizon by seeing the train come in, learning the fine points of horse trading or listening to learned legal and political discussion on County...
Postwar Plans. In San Francisco, waiting out the war and trying to keep track of her family, is Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner,* who was born Adele Blanc, in New Orleans, but moved to Kentucky "when she was a quadruped." Her elder son, Simon Bolivar III, is a captain in the Signal Corps in France, her younger son, William Claiborne, a plebe at West Point. The daughter, Mary, is studying at the University of California...