Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last White House wedding: the late Harry Hopkins and Mrs. Louise Macy on July 30, 1942. No President's daughter has been married there since 1914, when Eleanor Randolph Wilson married William Gibbs McAdoo...
...Literary Critic Edmund Wilson, dragged unwillingly to Peter Grimes, came away as enthusiastic as everyone else. Wrote he (in his Europe Without Baedeker) : "The opera seizes on you, possesses you, keeps you riveted to your seat during the action and keyed up during the intermissions, and drops you, purged and exhausted, at the end. . . . This opera could have been written in no other age, and it is one of the very few works of art that have seemed to me, so far, to have spoken for the blind anguish, the hateful rancors and the will to destruction of these horrible...
...swarming nebulae. The most distant showed as tiny, dim blobs. By a complex statistical method Hubble proved, after years of work, that these dimmest glimmers were so far away that their light, speeding at 186,000 miles per second, took 500,000,000 years to reach Mount Wilson...
...which can easily become an obsession. In summer he goes on long fishing trips, as far away as the Colorado Rockies. He belongs to the American Legion, takes part in "civic activities" like a good Californian. He studies Chinese philosophy. He even knows movie people. Relations between the Mount Wilson astronomers and Hollywood have never been close,* but Hubble has some friends (Aldous Huxley, Michael Arlen, Anita Loos) among the movie colony's intellectual...
...would be the first to deny that all the credit for the expanding universe theory is his. Many others, from Harvard's Harlow Shapley to Belgium's Abbe Georges Lemaitre, have contributed. *One cause for coolness: a studio, planning a movie about the stars, hired a Mount Wilson astronomer as consultant. He was happy with his easy $200 a month until he discovered that the studio had also hired an astrologer-at $1,500. *Humason alone is pessimistic. Thinking of his mercury-spoiled spectrographs, he says gloomily: "You don't know southern California." *The first thing...