Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decide whether your Feb. 17 item was supposed to be facetious or not: artificial insemination for spinsters! Aside from the fact that the very idea destroys the meaning of the word "family," can it be possible that Methodist Leader Donald Soper could possibly not know that a woman is called to two types of motherhood-spiritual as well as physical. I'm glad I'm not one of the sheep in this shepherd's fold; I would find frustration in his guidance...
...word "recession" was rapidly becoming one of the hardest-working polysyllables in the language. A Los Angeles coffee shop advertised 65? "recession specials" (salmon patties, veal cutlet...
...state schools, children are taught the strict discipline of Soviet life. Mrs. Roosevelt said she saw children under a year old doing memorized exercises. Four-year-olds went through group exercise routines "without a word being spoken...
...many for discussion here. They range from Peter Jones (who edits an English little magazine) to Peter Heliczer. Even I. A. Richards and a San Francisco poet contribute minor works. Taken as a lump (or, with Mr. Wyman's permission, a "citadel") the poets are craftsmen of word and form, but that's about all. Images like "oval charm" and "cockpit of empyreuma" sound better sans inspection. And some of the poems rhyme...
Last week the foundation's trustees rebelled, gave word that they will vote their own stock at the Kress annual meeting May 13. One big reason: Kress stock dropped from $50 in 1956 to $29 last week, and dividends were cut from $3 to $2, costing the foundation almost $1,000,000 a year in income...