Word: vellum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program on the television screens of the world." "Just like This Is Your Life," cracked Britain's Herbert Morrison, now Baron Morrison of Lambeth, 74, but the longtime Laborite warhorse was himself sniffling into his handkerchief, and much of his audience-which had just honored him with a vellum book of tribute-was weeping openly. Occasion: the retirement of "our 'Erb" from the treasureship of London's Labor Party organization, which he had served almost from its founding 48 years before. Stepping down partly to give someone else a turn and partly because his wife was wanting...
...chain, travelers experience even more the feel of how the Grecian islands are creatures of the sea, bound by myth and religion, commerce, a mystical aloneness: Kos, where Hippocrates was born; Patmos, where the monastery exhibits the St. Mark Gospel written in silver on 33 leaves of purple vellum (and where the hard-scrabbling islanders, says a visitor, "live on packages from relatives in New Jersey"); wooded Samos, divided from Turkey by a spectacular channel; Chios, one of Homer's many birthplaces; Lesbos, where Sappho wrote her molten poems...
When William Zeckendorf, premier impresario of the real estate world, announced last year his plans to build the first hotel in Manhattan since 1931, the fanfare was deafening. The announcement itself was made from the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion. A prospectus was bound in red-and-gilt vellum, bore the simple, modest title: "The Greatest Hotel Ever Built." It was to be called, inevitably, The Zeckendorf; it would be 48 stories high, with 2,000 luxury rooms, ten banquet halls, 15 private dining rooms. It would cost $66 million and open in 1961. Ground was broken last summer...