Word: webster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN ANKENBRUCK Webster Groves...
...constituents with assorted favors, Congressmen as diverse as South Carolina's hard-drinking Mendel Rivers and Harlem's high-living Adam Clayton Powell are still able to ride out allegations of impropriety. Where money is concerned the public is more exacting. As a Senator from Massachusetts, Daniel Webster maintained a private fund that had been collected from wealthy businessmen. He was criticized for it, but he had nothing to worry about: he was elected by a state legislature dominated by these same businessmen. In 1952, when it was disclosed by the press that Richard Nixon had a similar...
Despite their relative flexibility, the panelists produced the kind of clear, cur rent standards that were missing from the surprisingly permissive Webster's Third New International Dictionary of 1961. William Morris, editor of the American Heritage dictionary, feels that such standards are essential if readers are to have "any indication of the social levels of words." But Morris rejects suggestions that the new dictionary is an "American Fowler." Despite their prescriptive brilliance, he says, the Fowler Brothers (Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 1926) could not possibly reflect a true cross section of the literate community of their time...
Died. Douglas S. Moore, 75, composer and musicologist, who mined the fields of Americana in his popular operas, notably The Devil and Daniel Webster (1939), Giants in the Earth (1951), and The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956), which reconstructed the life of Colorado Silver King Horace Tabor; of pneumonia; in Greenport...
...Houston paraded around with a decorative boulder they had taken from a motel courtyard, explaining that it was a moon rock. A few barefoot guests at the Nassau Bay motel poolside picked up splinters from broken glasses and bottles. And the four-man police force of the city of Webster (adjacent to the Manned Spacecraft Center) gently arrested a dozen happy drunks. The county sheriff's officers, however, seemed unable to find any wrongdoers. "This was a proud crowd," explained Captain Gus George, of the sheriff's office. "You with...