Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the racoon-skin days, admiring Harvardians with time on their hands used to sit in the stands all night, watching the proceedings. When the gals said they appreciated this attention but felt a little like goldfish as a result of it, the HAA stepped in and "restricted the area...
...directed the Bauhaus school at Dessau. Here was a driving educational experiment founded on the iconoclastic thesis that an architect "is not an artist but a coordinator who must make all of his decisions from the point of view of the improved community." Beauty in a building is not skin- deep, held Gropius, but an integral part of the complete unity; more important, by "building" he did not mean an isolated structure but the street, town, region, nation...
This week Churchill and his chieftains had a chance to overthrow the Government and force a general election. Labor was split over the conscription bill; a fortnight ago 75 anti-conscription Laborite rebels voted against the Government. Its skin was saved by the Conservatives, who voted for the bill-although they might have found reasons of their own for opposing it, and thus forced a general election. The tactical opportunity will still be open to the Tories when the bill comes up for second reading...
...Aside from dysentery and minor skin diseases (e.g., heat rash) and eye troubles (from dust and sun glare), the troops were notably free from disease. There was no heat stroke, little malaria...
Holbrook Jackson's essay about Books Bound in Human Skin, which tells of a Russian poet who had lost a leg in a hunting accident, and used the discarded skin to bind a collection of his own love lyrics. Hides from many an aristocrat are said to have been used by leaders of the French Revolution to bind the works of their Patron-Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. Correctly tanned and dressed, human hide, says Author Jackson, is definitely comparable in texture and quality to good morocco...