Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who fostered Munich, some were dead, some repentant, some changed hardly a whit. Viscount Halifax, Chamberlain's now-repentant Foreign Secretary at Munich-time, rushed cheerfully from Birmingham (where he told an audience: "Once the shipping problem has been mastered, the Allied Nations can hold out very solid grounds for confidence") to Cabinet meetings in London, then to holiday on his rolling moors in Yorkshire. Droopy-lidded Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's political valet at Munich, prepared to quit his office in the Treasury as head of the British Civil Service. Munich-time Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...sharpened the cleavage between the two capitals. The city and its confusion are endlessly multiplied: to faraway citizens, Washington looks and sounds like a madhouse. But the solid core has grown too: Washington now has more keen managerial talent than any other city in the world...
When American troops appeared in New Guinea, they found natives ("Boongs") with the world's bushiest hair, which sometimes ringed heads with a solid twelve inches of felt-like fuzz (in which they love to pin flowers). They also found seven-toed cats-and a lizard called Gecko which sings, and a bird whose six-noted whistle sounds like "Did he do it?" Pause. "No, oh." U.S. pursuit pilots shot down by daring Japanese Zeroes found themselves parachuting into a leech-infested jungle so thick the earth never feels sunshine-hard, though the sun may try to broil...
...salary is about $1,000 a week. Daughter of a widowed, peripatetic insurance salesman, she once played a rippling brook in a grade-school pageant, a few roles in high-school plays. Then, unable to type fast enough to pass her stenographer's tests, she put in two solid summers with the Wharf Theater players in Provincetown, Mass., thence sailed right on to Broadway...
...exquisite figure. Always heavily perfumed, he was in the habit of remarking complacently: "I smell to heaven." He carried his own special brand of tea in a silver snuffbox to drink in nightclubs. He wore evening scarves by Schiaparelli, delighted in yanking up his pants leg and displaying his solid-gold garter clasps, studded with his four initials. He took up golf once but dropped it immediately, after finding himself in a locker room with a crowd of muscular, boisterous players. "It was too goddamn manly," he said...