Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slack-chinned, dull-eyed Crackers from the back country thronged the narrow streets, along with vacationers in shorts and halters, blue-red-yellow slacks, astrologers, hackies, pimps, and the solid, trading, homeliving folk of the city...
...More solid was The Nation as a critic of letters. Literary Editor Wendell Phillips Garrison was a stickler for scholarship and accuracy. Henry James the Elder tore into Thomas Carlyle's life of Frederick the Great; Henry James Jr. at 22 took a lofty view of the works of Charles Dickens ("the greatest of superficial novelists"), sneered at Henry Kingsley ("the author leaps astride of a half-broken fancy . . . and trusts to Providence for the rest. . . ."), was appalled by Walt Whitman ("You talk entirely too much about your self."). Longfellow, Whittier, James Rus sell Lowell contributed to The Nation...
...spell of such weather as had not been seen in the Isles for 46 years. Hush-hushed was the fact that the British capital was covered with snow, that snowdrifts twelve feet high were piled up on the Dover-Folkestone Road, that the Scottish lochs were frozen solid, that all of Britain shivered. The London Daily Mail gleefully published a cold-wave poem which, it said, had been held up for ten days, finally to be passed with "alterations...
...thought [Ella's ability] might be developed into real talent with study and hard work"), her fatal love of making a sensation, gratified by the tempest of propriety that erected Poems of Passion, her brief affair with James Whitcomb Riley (his levity wounded her), her marriage with solid, devoted Robert Wilcox, "a gentleman in every sense of the word" (who years later confided to a fellow club member his astonishment at having found the poetess of passion a virgin...
These arguments, too, are impelling. It is probably beyond the power of anyone outside the innermost circles of Britain and Germany to weigh correctly their respective merit. But we think that the logic of Dr. Holmes is as solid as granite, and that opposing set of arguments contains possible weaknesses. Hitler, for example, is an imponderable; his reaction to, and behavior after, a peace settlement, cannot be safely predicted. British resolution to pursue the war to an idealistic conclusion may be suspect, propaganda notwithstanding. If there is a chance for peace, it is to the selfish interest of the United...