Word: tableted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both sides of the Atlantic, thriller-dealers were set ashake by a rather small boo from Msgr. Ronald Knox (The Body in the Silo). "I say the detective story is in danger of getting played out," wrote Father Knox in the Roman Catholic weekly, the Tablet. ". . . . The stories get cleverer and cleverer, but the readers are getting cleverer and cleverer...
...driving rain, at Britain's seacoast town of Deal, the Mayor and a handful of raincoated freemen gathered to pay solemn tribute to a conqueror. The occasion : the unveiling of a memorial tablet to Julius Caesar on the 2,000th anniversary of his invasion...
...church at Hadleigh, Suffolk, still remembered his reply to Darwin and its implication of rather thoroughgoing research. They turned down a memorial offered by Woolner's aging daughters, because "any man who is asked to do things like that is not suitable to be commemorated in a church tablet." To clear his parish of any possible suspicion of complicity, Churchwarden W. Jones told the consistory court at Bury St. Edmunds : "Woolner's connection with Hadleigh was entirely fortuitous. He happened to be born there...
From the pioneer Connecticut outpost has grown an industrial city of 65,000. Near the commemorative tablet stands a World War II honor roll, with gold stars marking the name of many a newer seeker after liberty: Arruzza, Dubrovsky, Malizewski, Pezzimenti...
Conclusion: "The manuscript, the roll, the tablet [precursors of books] have often come through centuries. . . . The book and the library have been respected and safeguarded, even in war, as the very corporate mind of society. In 1939, society . . . turned upon itself and deliberately strove to destroy . . . that mind. It succeeded in a large measure...