Word: stoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charter member of the TIME staff before he left college. At various times he has filled nearly every editorial post on TIME, had a hand in FORTUNE, LIFE, MARCH OF TIME (radio and newsreel). A keen golfer, fish erman, huntsman, he once made a hole in one at Stoke Poges. In 1937 he broke the North American record for tuna (821 Ib.) off the Nova Scotian coast in a storm. General Manpower was written shortly afterwards, between ducks and woodcock, on a ten-month sabbatical...
...Kennedy children almost as enthusiastically as though they were the King's own moppets, and the Sunday Observer has recently come out with the results of a competition in which Britons have been writing verses on the U. S. Ambassador's recent hole-in-one at Stoke Poges...
...Near the Stoke Poges churchyard in Buckinghamshire where Thomas Gray in the 18th Century wrote an elegy, there is a brand-new golf course. There Joseph Patrick Kennedy on the fourth day after his arrival as U. S. Ambassador to Britain (see p. 19) scored a hole-in-one. Dazed, he exclaimed, according to British reporters: "Just fancy! I had to come all the way over here...
...were jigs, tools, drawings for a mechanical stoker. The original owners carried the stoker on their books at $5,000. The new owners considered it worthless. Idea for the stoker is supposed to have occurred to a greenhouse operator who got sick & tired of hopping out of bed to stoke his furnace on cold nights. The iron works had actually turned out a few crude stokers, using a feeder worm similar to that in a meat chopper. Several months after the iron works changed hands, inquiries began to straggle in from people who had seen the stoker in operation. Suddenly...
...press," Manhattan's reviewers habitually bend over backward to give radical drama the best possible marks. The case of Paradise Lost was no exception. Unanimously Mr. Odets was again declared to be the most promising playwright in the land. Again he got generous credit for his ability to stoke up steam under dramatic situations, explode them in fine style. Praised, too, was Mr. Odets' peculiar vulgate in which a girl is a "squab" or a "melon," thoughts are sometimes articulated by the titles of popular songs and a state of amorous infatuation occurs when "the little love bugs...