Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eagle-eye who can spot false teeth at a ten-yard glance is Boston Dentist Simon Myerson, brother of famed Harvard Psychiatrist Abraham Myerson. Every time gentle, absent-minded Dr. Myerson sees a mouthful of neat, dead-white false teeth, he shudders. Five years ago, Dr. Myerson was struck all of a heap. He called in his eldest son, Martin, a ceramist, and got busy...
Unrivaled for the richness and variety of its slang is Winchester, whose famed founder, William, of Wykeham (1373), decreed that its boys should talk Latin. Winchester finds it necessary to supply new boys with a glossary of its slang. Some Wykehamisms: abs (absent), chiz (cheat), cud (pretty, from couth, opposite of uncouth), infra-dig (scornful-to sport infra-dig duck, to look scornful), glope (spit), swink (sweat), thoke (idle in bed), ziph (a kind of pig Latin), plant (sock someone with a football...
...Think a Drink" Hoffman with his magic bar tending, and Carmen Miranda with her tropical lure. But missing also are half a dozen numbers that slowed up the show, while Abbott & Costello are crazier and better than ever. New to the show is Gypsy Rose Lee, with her famous absent-minded striptease. If it doesn't make up for Miranda, it keeps anyone in the audience-temporarily at least-from thinking about...
...last. Speakers were Mayor Bernard Dickmann, Mrs. Aloe (widow of the late Alderman Louis P. Aloe), Sculptor Milles himself. When the white, sheetlike veils were removed and the water shot 90 ft. into the air, wetting Sculptor Milles and a surrounding bevy of flower-toting ladies, everybody cheered. Conspicuously absent were Chairman Francis D. Healy and Tailor Hubert Hoef-linger, dissenting members of the Municipal Art Commission, who had long deplored Milles' sculptural nudism, had insisted that their names be removed from the plaque nakedly listing the sponsors of the venture...
Otherwise, Tap Day ran true to form. Absent from Branford Court but eventually bagged by Bones in his room was another critic of the societies, Kingman Brewster's roommate, William Eldred Jackson, son of U. S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson. Bones also got its Armenian, Newsman Barooyr Zorthian...