Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather sit at or in? A ten foot long piece of wood sculpture of ancient indigenous origin, with lots of room on which to lay your note-book, of whatever shape you may have, and your hat, if you wear one, your spare pencil, your spectacles and your watch, with lots of leg-room underneath, to tilt, squirm, or sprawl as the fancy seizes you-or a smooth, varnished wood-and-iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped...
...nightfall all Harlem had heard the news brayed by Communist loudspeakers: the eleven convicted bosses of the party were out on bail. Hundreds of Harlem's Negroes crowded into the streets to watch the triumphal homecoming of big, brassy Communist Ben Davis, their representative on the New York City Council...
Kilty's second contribution is a story called "A Moral Tale" about a four-star altar boy who turns out to be a pretty nasty little fellow after all. Though written with some good touches--such as a scene in which the saints in the church "watch" the boy steal from a collection basket--the story is unconvincing either as a satire of parish culture or as a psychological study of the child. An improbable ending, in which the boy showers a group of gaffers in a park with the pilfered church money and the old men have a sort...
...Haven. Naturally, he can reminisce with the best of them. It seems the late Percy Haughton was the local originator of post-game goal post demolition, a pastime which was to increase in popularity later on. Haughton was coaching at Cornell at the time and came down to watch a Harvard-Yale game. "He always was a playboy," recalls Enright...
Before the intermission the two clubs sang serious songs. It was here that the Princetons showed their failings the most. The general impression ereated was that they needed rehearsing--their faces were buried in their scores and they consequently didn't watch Mr. Knapp, their conductor. The unfortunate result was that as a section fell behind on the beat it made the rest of the club go flat despite the piano accompaniment. When they sang folk songs and spiritual afterwards without music, however, this failing largely vanished...