Word: space
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with newsy photographs and headlines (one big March story: JOHN C. HOLLAND LAID TO REST). In his English car, Editor Sancton made the rounds of his borderline beat, hunting for stories to bolster the time-honored diet of "personals." Soon, paid circulation hit the 1,000 mark. Advertisers sought space in the livelier Journal. This week, for the first time, the Journal will publish a ten-page issue...
...right, folks," said Mr. Summers. "Let's finish quickly." By now Tessie Hutchinson was in the middle of a cleared space; she held her hands out desperately, but the villagers moved in. Old Man Warner kept saying, "Come on, come on, everyone." Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, "It isn't fair," but soon the crowd was upon her. A stone hit her on the head. Other stones came hurtling through...
...qualities saved Villon's new work from being classed as "second-period cubism," i.e., art that derives from the early days of Braque and Picasso but dilutes their experiments into decorative and fairly understandable patterns-something for the living room. The first quality was the clear cold space in Villon's landscapes: deserting table-top still lifes, he had found a little of the space and sweep of the out-of-doors. The second quality was in his colors. As a reaction against the sunny hues of impressionism, the cubists had often painted with what looked like birdlime...
...moving stairway, he stationed an attendant to hand out free doses of smelling salts or cognac to all who had braved the trip. When he built his new store, between Basil Street and Braupton Road, a domed and gingerbready six-story edifice with 13½ acres of floor space, Burbidge shrewdly allowed for expansion by letting out the top floors as flats. Of the ten flats that are left, the largest belongs to his grandson Sir Richard Burbidge, Bt., who was born there and grew up to be the present managing director. Several hours a day, Sir Richard leaves...
...actual war material. Still his armies have melted before Mao's Communists. The reason is obvious incompetent leadership, corruption, and lack of popular support." I suggest that the moral forces that overcame Chiang were very real indeed; but methinks these "moral forces" have taken up more than a little space on the Kremlin-to-China trade route...