Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, D.C., Purcell L. Smith, lobbyist for electric utilities, was refused a divorce though he pleaded that he and his wife had not slept in the same bed for five years, although they used the same bedroom. Snapped Judge F. D. Letts: "If I were going to divorce people because husbands and wives did not sleep in the same bed, I would have to divorce half the people in town...
...Japanese find U.S. democracy attractive but elusive. It is strange and foreign to the touch. Schoolboys argue whether Minshushugi means Marx, Lincoln or Adam Smith. Harried housewives wonder how long it will be before belief in true democracy can scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very...
...President James Monroe Smith, a Long man, was sentenced to from eight to 24 years in prison for embezzlement. L.S.U.'s last president, William ("The Conqueror") Hatcher retired on grounds of health after a series of administration-faculty disagreements...
...about words of prejudice, such as nigger and kike (nigger got in, with the crisp warning: "A substandard term"). Finally, the most specialized new words went out to consulting experts for definition. One of the new dictionary's "youngest" definitions (written by Historian Hans Kohn of Smith College): iron curtain-"a barrier created by censorship, prohibition of free travel, etc , to isolate Russian-controlled territory from outside contact...
...took part in the game, Len Wheeler and Tom Nuzem. Wheeler was with the team in Bermuda but received a kick in the head in one of the Rugby Week games. Nuzen took the place of Peter Manning-Smith and did and excellent...