Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Picasso was Spanishly jealous of his 18-year-old mistress-though he was grateful enough that the ogling coal dealer neglected to leave a bill. To keep her at home he did the marketing himself, dressed in the cap, espadrilles and blue jeans of a workman, plus a famous white-polka-dotted red shirt that cost him less than two francs. The mystic poet, Max Jacob, helped Picasso, who steadfastly refused to do any "commercial" work. A terrific and efficient worker, to avoid interruptions Picasso soon took to painting all night, a habit which may have had something...
Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran of the White House Janizariat went to Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore), had his appendix removed. A friend who keeps up with doings in New Zealand (see p. 72) sent him one dozen fertile hens' eggs to take into bed with him and hatch out*-during his forced absence from plots & plans in Washington...
...first wife was Dutch, his second White Russian, his third a pro-Nazi German. In 1937, after his third marriage, he retired from the directorship of Royal Dutch-Shell. At 70, worth $200,000,000, he was still ruddy, still sharp-eyed, still apoplectic in his hates, still pulling strings behind the European scene...
...became assistant to Abraham Lincoln's wartime private secretary, John G. Nicolay. An adept in handling cranks and job-hunters, a shrewd political observer, personable, sympathetic, young Hay quickly rose in Lincoln's esteem, went everywhere in wartime Washington, missed little. He shared a room in the White House with his good friend Nicolay, held many a nightshirt conversation with the "Ancient," or the "Tycoon," as he nicknamed Lincoln...
...Waikato, New Zealand, hospital, Harold Ryder got bored lying in bed. To while away the time, he asked for a fresh egg, "set" on it steadily for 25 days, hatched a healthy white Leghorn chick...