Word: tristram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your Press department [TIME, Jan. 21 ] recalled the appropriate line from Tristram Shandy ("They should have wiped it up," said my Uncle Toby, "and said no more about it"), and proceeded to wipe up the press and say more about it [the reporting of Lieut. General Sir Frederick Morgan's remarks on Jewish refugees...
...They should have 'wiped it up," said my uncle Toby, "and said no more about it."-Tristram Shandy...
James Thurber, world-weary artist-humorist (My World-and Welcome to It, My Life and Hard Times), was admitted to the dusty, plushy National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Also elevated: versifying Information Pleaser Franklin Pierce Adams, meticulous Poet Wallace Stevens (Harmonium), rumpled, ever-ready Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Maine Ballads), left-winging Dramatist Lillian Hellman (Watch on the Rhine), New York Times Columnist Simeon Strunsky (Topics of The Times...
...whimsical Yorick of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey, the Rev. Laurence Sterne became one of the greatest professional charmers in English letters. The consumptive parson himself was more interesting than charming. So violently attracted to women that he could hardly focus his emotions on any one of them, he clothed his writing in delicate salacity, his love-making in delicate sentiment. Mr. Quennell sums up A Sentimental Journey as "a textbook on feeling"; but its author eludes...
...first Americans to "make a juncture" with U.S. troops in the northern theater. They were the first, by ten days, having passed unscathed between two German columns. For this scandalous breach of regulations the five were suspended (i.e., forbidden to file copy) by Brigadier General Tristram Tupper-for two days...