Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great day of election draws nearer and nearer, all the political parties are imploring the people to register promptly and to vote without fail. Some campaigners have even struggled above the steam of partisan battle to admit that a large turnout is desirable in itself, whether it happens to be for their particular groups or not. And although a great many potential voters seem to be less than inspired this year by the privilege of picking their government, few will deny that a perplexing choice is better than no choice...
Showdown. None of the previous credit tightening had had much effect. For example, when Congress dropped some of the easy credit for housing last spring, builders gloomed that it would take the steam out of the housing boom. They were wrong. Last week, the Department of Commerce reported that new construction had hit an alltime high of nearly $1.8 billion in August, 31% higher than a year...
Chickens & Whistles. Ever since the Conquistadores, the long (1,071 miles), broad Magdalena has been Colombia's chief traffic artery. It was always silt-laden, a river continually chewing at its banks. The coming of steam made things worse; woodburning stern-wheelers stopped to cut into the tropical forests for fuel. That made for greater erosion, and also for a quicker rain runoff, with the result that the river could be high one day, low a few days later. Sandbars piled up so fast that steamers could not follow the same course from one day to the next...
Some of the steam was taken out of Billy Rose's pipe dreams last week. The Metropolitan Opera announced that it would be able to have a 1948-49 season after all, and without Billy's help. The season would start late-possibly not until the first of December-and be only 16 or 17 weeks long...
...Higgins. After attending Columbia University, where he was a classmate of Nicholas Murray Butler, he became a full-time playboy, with a $50 million carpet fortune to spend. Almost everything he did made news-his winning of the U.S. fencing championship in 1890; the time his 1,520-ton steam yacht was wrecked in the Madeira Islands (he won a medal for saving his guests); his fabulous parties ("sumptuous pleasure campaigns," the papers called them); his romance with Emma Calve, the opera star. "Mr. Higgins," wrote one society editor in 1898, "is not only the richest, but the handsomest unmarried...