Word: slouches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final round last week, nobody felt like objecting. Britain's sports pages were full of the Babe. They called her "Tough Babe," used such adjectives as "spectacular" and "phenomenal." They told Britons what most Americans already knew: that the Babe was also no slouch at javelin throwing, hurdling, swimming, shot-putting, baseball, high jumping, tennis and basketball, and that she had won 15 straight U.S. golf tournaments before crossing the Atlantic "for the only major women's golf title I have left to win." The British women's amateur was also the only major British golf title...
...complete the mess by marrying a gaunt Sunday-school teacher. "Lucy Barton," says tactful Biographer Terhune, "was doubtless attractive; but she lacked physical charm." "I am going to be married -don't congratulate me," the bridegroom told a friend. He turned up at church in "an old slouch hat," spoke only once at the wedding breakfast. Offered some blanc mange, he waved it away, muttering "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid...
...responsible for this notable advance is a 45-year-old, twinkling professor with a scientific slouch, a strong French accent and gestures. He came to the U.S. in 1924, at Rutgers completed the training he began in Paris. The TB culture may or may not be his greatest achievement: his discovery (in 1937) of gramicidin, first of the germ-killing mold extracts, led to the development of penicillin. His latest find, he hopes, will lure young doctors into TB research, hitherto shunned because "the chances of finding something have been practically...
Richard Wright, U.S. Negro writer (Native Son, Black Boy), arrived in Paris as a cultural guest of the French Government, was greeted at the station by functionaries and Gertrude Stein. Author Stein, no slouch as an original herself, let go with a tribute: "He writes the most interesting and original prose being written by an American writer today...
Farago defends diplomacy's "obsolescent" verbiage: "Diplomacy would lose much of its spell once stripped of the belle tournure of its nomenclature." Corps Diplomatique itself is no slouch at belle tournure. With scholarly assists from Longfellow, Goethe, Lord Cecil, Dr. Johnson, Sir Henry Wotton,* Rousseau, Burke, Schiller, Lenin, Lord Castlereagh and Bronson Alcott, it delivers itself of such pearls as: "The bores and the bored whom Byron-called the 'two mighty tribes of society,' are still around and about. But diplomats, who are the best society, now follow Ruskin's advice and keep...