Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister's residence, Ike and Dief settled themselves in chintz-covered chairs, and for an hour and 35 minutes went over the problems of trade, tariffs and joint defense that they had agreed to discuss. Sitting in with their chiefs were Dulles and External Affairs Chief Sidney Smith, U.S. Ambassador Livingston Merchant and Canada's Ambassador to Washington, Norman Robertson...
...wife. Some $16 million in bonds, three mansions, a railroad, and countless acres of timberland passed through his hands; but the day came when he was jailed for skipping out on a $94 hotel bill. This contradictory, little-known figure of U.S. history was Union General Milton Smith Littlefield. In this book, North Carolina Author (A Southerner Discovers the South) and Editor (Raleigh News and Observer) Jonathan Daniels offers a tantalizing answer to the question of what Littlefield was really like...
Globe's business is profitable; the firm sells some 100,000 copies a year, mostly to schools, of its 50-60 condensations. Globe, and half a dozen other firms that make such condensations, will go right on selling them, despite Classics-Crank Smith's outcry at the "preposterously arrogant assumption . . . that the adapter somehow knows how to write the book better than did the original author." And youngsters will go right on believing, quite erroneously, that they have read Two Years Before the Mast or A Tale of Two Cities or Moby Dick...
...reading primer ("Easy little steps for muddy little feet") is completely Mad: "My teacher is Miss Furd. I tell the school board Miss Furd is a Commie. Miss Furd is through in this town . . . This is Bobby Smith. He is our playmate. Bobby sells reefers to the other children in school...
Died. Alexander Malcolm Smith, 99, Scots-born explorer and prospector (for oil and gold), who became a legendary figure in the Canadian northwest and Alaska, once blazed an 1,800-mile trail from Alberta to Dawson in the Yukon Territory, later spent some time in a Soviet jail for prospecting on the fringes of Siberia; in San Jose, Calif...