Word: toweling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stockmarket, as the sum total of many bets on the future, almost always anticipates (and frequently overanticipates) good or bad news. Last week, when Italy finally threw in the towel, the market took the good news in traditional style: it went down. But the drop, two-thirds of a point on the Dow-Jones industrial average, was picayune compared to the threeday, 6½-point nose dive that followed the fall of Mussolini last July, and was more than made up in the next day's trading...
...Japan. This was to save money for the trip, and also to condition himself for Japanese life. He slept in the front seat of his car, ate canned salmon heated on the exhaust manifold (food cost: 25? a day), pressed his trousers by using the running board and a towel for the ironing board; alto gether saved $375. Then he worked his way across the U.S. to his native North west, stopped at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha office in Seattle and paid $195 for a round-trip ticket to Yokohama, tourist class...
...with playing old-fashioned war games. The young officer's orders are to begin the war at midnight, but he and his men start at 6 p.m., rush to London and capture the Home Guard General in a Turkish bath. The young officer looks down on the towel wrapped about Blimp's droopy paunch and says: "Well, all I can say, Sir, is that when Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach. . . ." From his full, majestic, nude height Blimp replies: "Let me tell you that in 40 years' time you'll be an old gentleman...
...precious titles and subtitles lifted from Francis Thompson, Racine, Leopardi, etc. To Garland of the Garland (credit line: Meleager, in the Greek Anthology), in which a morose young woman in a long white dress sulks on a wall while a garlanded youth wipes his ear with a towel, Stark Young appended a welcome note of explanation: "To the boy the lady seems as beautiful as the magazines. He has been making garlands, and to him she is the garland's very soul." Polyglot as his influences are, most of Young's subjects are native...
This by no means circles the athletic square--to catalogue all Harvard managers is a prodigious task in itself, and perhaps in a later digression they, too, will be paid homage.... Pass that towel...