Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became known to an ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation"; (describing William Walton's Scapino Overture) "A blithe, scapegrace carefree sort of score, it makes you think Walton must have whistled it when he drove his ambulance through the London...
Everywhere there were signs that there would be enough food for the winter: golden patches deepening in the green velvet counterpane; the full grain in the ear; the arched necks of horses dipping willingly as the first fields fell to the reapers; the sputter of tractors; and the patina of maturity touching the cabbage leaves in thousands of little back yards. God helping, it would be the biggest harvest in all of Britain's history, and people were grateful. Not that they would eat more-they would eat less. But every extra ton of ripening grain...
...than that was going on. At stake was the success of the nation's entire wartime food program, not to mention the possibility of entirely unnecessary and artificial inflation of food prices. At stake for a relatively few top-drawer U.S. farmers were several hundred million dollars of velvet...
...since the Revolution, two Committee members, Lawyer John K. Howard and H. Wendell Endicott (Endicott-Johnson shoes), visited Britain last year. They were impressed by the Home Guard School conducted by Guerrilla Tom Wintringham for the British War Office (TIME, May 25). Last week came the result: on the velvet-lawn-and-colonial-brick campus of Middlesex School at Concord, Major General Sherman Miles, Commander of the First Corps Area, abetted by the Committee, opened a tactical school. Purpose: to teach guerrilla-warfare methods to State Guards. The Commandant is Lawyer Howard, now a lieutenant colonel...
...finale on May 21 there was hurly-burly and hubbub on a first-night scale. Lush young models in picture hats drove 45 miles from Seattle. Half a dozen dairy greats flew 1,743 miles from Chicago for the event. Reporters swarmed around the platform where Capper posed behind velvet ropes. Milker Gockerell took his place, started to milk. A nervous photographer interrupted to ask him to move Capper's stern a few degrees to port. Infuriated, Gockerell shouted: "You can't shove a cow like this around. She's got ideas...