Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decade or more that survival has been in doubt-and plenty of literary buzzards have circled above the place of apparent extinction. Archibald MacLeish, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a strong and gorgeous narrative poem on the conquest of Mexico (Conquistador), began, in the middle '30s, to write poetic manifestoes of state in which the oratorical interest outgrew the poetic. Moreover, both kinds of interest deteriorated, reaching a nadir in a thin book of thin versified prattle called America Was Promises, in 1939. In that year MacLeish had accepted the first of a series of public...
...convinced that no amount of electioneering would change a decisive number of votes. "Political campaigns," said he, "are largely ritualistic ... All the evidence we have accumulated since 1936 tends to indicate that the man in the lead at the beginning of the campaign is the man who is the winner at the end of it... The winner, it appears, clinches his victory early in the race and before he has uttered a word of campaign oratory...
Perfect Creases. In the other bracket, breezing through his first five rounds, Frank Stranahan ran into Ray Billows in the quarterfinal. A big partisan crowd trailed the two golfers around the 6,617-yd. course. One of Bachelor Stranahan's pretty fans had no trouble predicting the winner. Said she, loud enough for the players to hear: "Frankie's pants have perfect creases. That other guy looks like a bum." Replied Billows affably: "Lady, I've got a nicely pressed suit in my locker -and I'll wear it tomorrow in my semifinal match." Stranahan...
Each contestant will read a short speech containing key words: oyster, oil, saw, idea, Long Island. Presumably, the girl who most consistently approximates erster, erl, sawr, idear and lonGUYland will be the winner...
...Kaladio. The top contender-Dekko-was borrowed from cockney slang. In the vernacular, dekko† means look (e.g., "Let's have a dekko at it") True to the leisurely traditions of many British contests, the Daily Express isn't sure just when it will announce the winner-maybe this week; maybe later...