Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of these young propagandists adopted the cartoonist's and caricaturist's method. A sixth-grader conceived Japan as a silkworm just fallen off a mulberry leaf (entitled He Overate!); one Chune Fook did a heart-rending distortion of two famine victims. Judged best was Ernest Louie's deadly earnest, broad-stroked water color of a Chinese family fleeing in terror from a bombed village. Ernest, a 16-year-old Clevelander, reads the papers...
Since that day, more than a year ago, the new courthouse has begun to dull with a patina of smoke and weather, the Sixth Avenue Elevated has been torn down, the "World of Tomorrow" on Flushing Meadows has grown up into a World's Fair. But Judge Caffey is still hearing the same lawsuit, still looking down upon the same bank of lawyers. On June 1, a year to the day from the opening of the case, the U. S. rested. Last week, Alcoa launched its defense...
...first time that Liberal M. P.s had complained that one-sixth of Scotland, or about 3,400,000 acres, was devoted to deer. Once, in 1913, when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer, there was a project afoot to force the deer-park-owning peers to sell the land to the Government, which would then settle farmers on it. The peers were more than willing. They flooded the Government with offers. The Duke of Sutherland, who then owned 19 deer forests comprising 396,175 acres, offered half his lands at $10 an acre. Catch is that Scottish deer...
...buys books, he buys by weight, size, color. What is inside the book does not interest him. Pulling down a volume from a publisher's stockroom shelves, he turns it over in his plump hands, says: "Tick [thick], 18?." If it is thin, he says: "Tin, 8?." Some sixth sense supplies him with his shrewd literary judgments. Of one unfortunate author he is supposed to have said: "Dat guy? Dat guy? He couldn't even write a good remainder...
...Sixth Inning...