Word: stand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of the death and funeral of Gandhi, however, is best read after a glance south from Delhi, to the place where stands a monument, the Taj Mahal, to another dead Indian. The great Shah Jehan built it to immortalize the memory of his empress' beauty. It is man's most eloquent effort to deny that the body and its beauty dies. It is a triumph of the mortician's art. Some may try to raise a Taj to Gandhi (the prettifiers will scarcely be able to stand statues of that ugly body). But Gandhi...
...stand around a gathering from over there as if waiting for them to throw away cigarette, as might not cooperate...
...boys in Doc Evans' jazz band blew a final chord and then drifted from the stand for an intermission smoke. As the jump fans settled down to their beers, a stooped and droopy-eyed old Negro clambered up to the piano behind the chromium bar. He began a rolling boogie bass -not fast and tinny like most boogie, but low and underneath the deep, dark blues his right hand played. He played softly, staring out into the blue smoke as if he didn't care whether anyone listened. Not everyone did. But the oldtimers around Chicago...
...Story (Hellman, Williams; $2.75),* on the bookstands this week, he tramps boldly through the years (1920-25) when he was king of tennis. "I can stand crowds only when I am working in front of them," he writes, "and then I love them!" He seems to have loved none of his partners or opponents...
Vice-President James R. Killian, Jr., of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will take the stand for that University, while it is a possibility that Daniel L. Marsh, president of Boston University, will also testify...