Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anglicanism, now serves as lay reader* in his village church near Exeter. He believes that his Mirror column may enable him to cover the field of applied Christianity in "20 or 30 articles," happily anticipates some hot controversy over such questions as whether Jonah ever really lived in the whale. Says he: "I hope we shall be interrupted there for some time...
...skin cape. They ate meat, seafood and fungi, washed themselves with liver. They did not drink or smoke, had determinedly rigid standards of chastity. They attached no prestige to wealth. They were free of restraints of government, seldom gathering in large groups except to eat a dead whale. They counted up to five only...
...decade ago, spectacled, aggressive Gardner ("Mike") Cowles likes to recall, "I, personally, started Look, and devoted a whale of a lot of time to it. I was the works, and I really ran everything." But for most of that decade, the picture magazine he sired was run by others. It saw its founding father only in the little time he could take from running the family's Des Moines Register & Tribune and radio stations, and working as a top OWI executive...
...overheated Faroe kitchens, hotheaded partisans recently have let the whale-oil lamps burn low while they argued the merits of proud independence on the one hand or Danish protection on the other. Some have even suggested alliance with the U.S. or Britain. But last September, when the Danes offered them a flat choice between full freedom or continued rule, the Faroese, unable to decide, turned down both alternatives. Last week they elected a new Lagting (local parliament) with instructions to work out some compromise which would adapt Danish rule to local conditions in the Faroes...
...record stalls looked as gay as well-appointed nurseries last week; an unprecedented flood of children's albums was ready for the Christmas trade. The newly recorded daydreams and nightmares ranged from Nelson Eddy's bellowing like a whale to Jose Ferrer's reading of Mozart and Schubert biographies with symphonic accompaniment. Best of the lot: a straightforward dramatization of Oscar Wilde's poignant fairy tale, The Happy Prince, starring Bing Crosby and Orson Welles (Decca, 4 sides) and Balladeer Woody Guthrie's original harum-scarum Songs to Grow On-Nursery Days (Disc, 6 sides...