Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cleared the left-field fence for home run No. 51. Three innings later, he put No. 52 in the same place. To Pittsburghers, who head for the exits the moment Kiner has taken his last turn at bat, even Babe Ruth's record mark of 60 (in 1927) still seemed within Kiner's reach...
...local school board and reserved 25 places at slightly reduced fees (?226) for boys from state-financed primary schools. But of the 40 examined, only three could pass the entrance exams, with their emphasis on Latin and Greek. In 1947, 25 were examined and none could pass: Winchester still had to draw its new boys from private primary schools. Last year again no qualified students were found among the state-school applicants. Oakeshott's proposed solution: better education in the government's schools. "Then," says he, "I think we could extend educational opportunities to a greater part...
...coming word for it on the West Coast. In Denver, socially boresome classmates formerly referred to as "creeps" are now called "meals"; a "sizzle" is a general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff. In Chicago, last year's "D.D.T." (drop dead twice) is still fashionable; the dangling "but," sounded with rising inflection on the end of any declaration or question, is new there. Example: "Where you goin', but?" In Detroit, high school girls now talk of the "goofs we go with"; in San Francisco a nice guy is a "good head...
With the boys, T-shirts and open collars are still popular, but almost everywhere it is becoming fashionable to wear the shirts tucked in. Argyle socks, preferably knitted by a "connected" girl, are much in demand. In Seattle, there is even a real effort to keep shoes shined and hair cut. One new fad in the East: black belts buckled in back...
...side streets of Greenwich Village and points east & west, place it in galleries where the public could see and admire it. For when Gertrude Whitney took a studio in the Village's MacDougal Alley in 1907, the plush offices of the Fifth Avenue art dealers were still cold to all but academicians. Museums would not look twice at the work of naturalist painters such as John Sloan and William Glackens, who were sneeringly referred to as "the ashcan school...