Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rocky shoreline. One day last fortnight Lightkeeper James Richard Hutt, 33, picked up his shotgun, set off down the shore to add some ducks and rabbits to the family larder. By dusk he had not returned. His slight, dark-haired wife, Pauline, climbed the steep steps of the lighthouse tower, and lit the twin wicks herself...
...F.P.A. had hiked his pay to $21,852 a year, for a syndicated column in the New York Herald Tribune. When he tried to boost it higher and was offered a pay cut instead, F.P.A. submerged, surfaced his "Conning Tower" again on the New York Post. The Post fired him in 1941 because the Adams style of poetry a la Horace and Herrick was too fancy for the subway trade...
...prints 35), last week found room for one more. The new column, "This Little World," came from an old hand. Moustached, spaniel-eyed Franklin Pierce Adams, 64, got his start in 1903, grinding out columns for $25 a week on the old Chicago Journal. When he manned the "Conning Tower" in the old New York World, such wits and literary wights as Dorothy Parker and John O'Hara were among his unpaid contributors...
...afford. Last October it found a way: one shepherd for its two flocks. Philip Humason Steinmetz, rock-hewn rector of tiny, white-framed St. John's Episcopal Church, took over as minister also of the Congregational Church that, with its Greek Revival portico and bell tower, dominates Ashfield's elm-bordered main street...
...will be universally recognized that the white house in the Hollywood hills in which this Symphony was written, and which was regarded by some as an ivory tower, was just as close to the core of a world at war as the place where Picasso painted Guernica...