Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small alcoved room in Doneraile Court, a Miss St. Leger became the only lady Free Mason. The popular story is that she hid in a clock, her family says she happened to fall asleep on a couch; anyhow, whether by design or accident, she overheard what the Free Masons were saying, so they made her one of their number. In her portrait the lady . . . has a dogged, impassible face [see cut]. I support the idea of the clock...
Although night harness racing (trotters and pacers) is a profitable enterprise in many U.S. localities, after-dark running races have made only a small start in one state (Oregon). Old-fashioned breed improvers are appalled at the very idea of displaying the sport of kings under lights; trainers, who like to work their charges in the cool of early morning, hate any thought of changing their customs; and jockeys dislike the idea of joining the nightworker class. But a few horse-park operators have been dreaming, somewhat wistfully, of the potentially big turnouts they might draw after dark...
...Into a small, smart shop on London's Bond Street strolled two women. One was a $24-a-week typist, the other a peeress. In turn, each one plunked down 49 shillings ($9.80), and walked out smiling with a new pair of Joyce playshoes. In similar shops in Manhattan and Melbourne, Los Angeles and Lima, Sydney and Santiago, other women were doing the same thing last week. In a single day, in eight countries around the world, some 16,000 pairs of Joyce shoes are sold...
...Brooklyn and Back. Bill Joyce was working for a West Coast finance company when he decided to be his own boss. After a look at 100 different businesses, he picked shoes. He lined up pledges of $150,000 in venture capital to buy a small Brooklyn shoe factory, arrived in New York to close the deal just as the stock market crashed in 1929. His pledges soon evaporated...
Dreamy Lad. British Novelist Nigel Balchin (The Small Back Room; Mine Own Executioner) doesn't know all the answers, and doesn't much care. In Borgia Testament, which pretends to be an "autobiography" written by Cesare shortly before his death, Novelist Balchin is mainly interested in trotting out a brand-new explanation of Cesare's willful ways. In Balchin's view, Cesare was a man of vision, born before his time, who hoped to do what Garibaldi finally accomplished-unite all Italy...