Word: vellum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barnes, 36, arrived fresh from a twelve-year engagement at the University of Kansas, where he was resident carillonneur, professor of carillon and harpsichord, and curator of rare musical instruments. He brought to Washington the sort of vellum-bound humor acquired in his esoteric calling. "A good organist can adapt to a carillon fairly quickly," he said pleasantly. "In about two years he should have a good start...
...founders had shriveled to remote memories, soon to become the authors only of strange words describing an incomprehensible subject, to be found on the pages of musty vellum books that were rarely read; and then on the pages of fresh new paperbacks, assigned to most freshmen. They had shriveled to names, rarely identified, of the new eleven-story building on the Charles, of the hall in which one studied mathematics, of the theatre where one could see the latest festival of Bogart films. They had shriveled to rectangular pieces of cement, embossed upon red brick walls, to be ignored...
Every person that has received and degree, may have a diploma signed by the Corporation, and sealed with the College seal, If he shall request it, and bring to the President a fair copy of the established form, written on vellum of parchment, and other things necessary thereunto, for which he shall pay to the President a fee not less than one dollar...
...means Angling and F stands for Daniel B. Fearing, a former mayor of Newport who donated, in 1915, several thousand titles having to do with fish and fishing. "What a gold mine," thought Gridley, "everything is here. The sixteenth-century Ius Fluviaticum bound luxuriously in vellum with metal clasps and that Mexican masterwork, Piscicultura in Agua Dulce. To say nothing of Tricks That Take Fish and all fifteen editions of British Rural Sports." On a lower shelf he noticed two copies of Fish I Have Known by Arthur H. Beavan, author of Birds I Have Known and Animals I Have...
...subject (she isn't). It is that Persian Art (Golden Press; 401 pp.) costs $25 and weighs 4! Ibs., and Powers' novel costs only $4.50 and weighs a paltry 20 oz. Until some publisher solves the problem by charging $40 for a novel printed on vellum, gift givers ashamed to say "$4.50 worth of Merry Christmas" will buy books by the pound...