Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something from Country C, which the latter can provide if she can get something from Country D; and Country D can provide that something-on condition she gets something which only Germany, and the Ruhr in particular, can produce. Whatever article we take, we finish up against a blank wall-Germany. It is the fact that Germany is not there which paralyzes our calculations...
...Quite a bit different from last summer," said Bert Haines the other day as he stood at the top of the Weld Bost Club dock-runway. There was one oarsman shoving off in a wherry, a couple more running themselves against the wall of the Boat Club, a few swimming off the end of the dock...
Besides witches, whirligigs and a nine-foot Totem of Religion made out of three old railroad ties, the show included some 125 paintings, photographs and wall splotches by Surrealists and fellow travelers of 19 nations, including the top ones: Max Ernst, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miro, Man Ray. Many admirers of early Surrealism (such as Communist Louis Aragon) felt that the daft old horse had lost its kick. Notably absent: Giorgio de Chirico, now a noisy detractor of the movement, and Salvador Dali, unfrocked by orthodox Surrealists for being too frivolous and too commercial...
...lowdown on those saucers in the sky (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). They were flying wings, said Walter; he knew all about it, including details of a Montana crash. Wrote Winchell: ". . . in 1943 an American firm . . . pioneering in jet-propulsion planes sent an experimental test ship through the so-called supersonic wall. In other words ... it was traveling in space ahead of itself. . . . The plane was not heard of again for more than three weeks, when it was found crashed somewhere in lower Montana. The pilot was dead. He was 38, but his teeth and body were those...
Auden is settled for the summer on Fire Island-off New York's Long Island -where he owns a tar-paper-covered shack near a sand dune. On one wall of his littered study Poet Auden keeps an immense map of Alston moor in Cumberland below the Roman Wall, his childhood country, whose limestone quarries, fells and valleys-and mining machinery -have persisted as bleakly beautiful imagery in all his work...