Word: writed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brushing off congratulations at the swearing-in ceremonies with "Yes, but this does not end my troubles," Adenauer hurried back to his study to write Schäffer that his proposal was "unsatisfactory" and that it was no longer possible to offer him the vice-chancellorship. Schäffer's Bavarian party followers rushed to Adenauer to suggest that Schäffer could be mollified if he was offered the Justice Ministry. Within minutes, Adenauer scratched off his first choice as Justice Minister, put down Schäffer's name instead. "Oh, how they make me suffer...
...began the final exam for one of the most popular courses at Amherst College -Religion 22. Students were not particularly surprised: Episcopalian Professor James Alfred Martin Jr. is celebrated for his offbeat exams. (Once he directed students to write TV scripts for the program You Are There at the Council of Nicaea and the Diet of Worms.) Last week, in reprinting Martin's most recent final, the Amherst Alumni News provided readers with a thought-provoker and argument-starter of uncommon ingenuity. As the exam question continues, the beer-guzzling Wise Guy gives this racy history of the Christian...
...together like 4th and July, but they got off to a strange start when Ross hired Thurber as his managing editor. ("In those days," explained Thurber last week, "you started at the top and worked your way down.") Ross affected to despise writers; Thurber wanted only to write. "He wanted, first of all, to know how old I was, and when I told him it set him off on a lecture. 'Men don't mature in this country, Thurber,' he said. 'They're children. I was editor of the Stars and Stripes when...
...called the functional: 'bathroom and bedroom stuff.' Years later he deleted from a Janet Planner 'London Letter' a forthright explanation of the nonliquid diet imposed upon the royal family and dignitaries during the coronation of George VI. 'So-and-so can't write a story without a man in it carrying a woman to bed,' he wailed. And again, 'I'll never print another [John] O'Hara story I don't understand. I want to know what his people are doing...
While Ross persisted in expecting precise, orderly, machinelike efficiency from Thurber, Thurber persisted in trying to write New Yorker prose. One day Ross stormed in on him. "You've been writing," he exploded in accusation, "I don't know how in hell you found time ... I admit I didn't want you to." Thereupon he wrote Thurber out of the imagined society of efficient journalists and treated him as a sort of basket case. "I was a completely different man," writes Thurber ". . . one of the trio about whom he fretted and fussed continually-the others were Andy...