Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jack ("I'm live!") Paar had hardly launched himself as NBC's bright weeknightly answer to late movies when he began playing Pygmalion to a professionally addled Galatea from Ohio, orange-topped Dolores ("Dody") Martha Goodman, "aged 29" (real age: 43). By last week, seven months later, the comedienne that Jack built had "disenchanted" her creator, and Paar felt less a Pygmalion than a Frankenstein. "Sweet little Midwestern Dody," he snorted. "Brother! And we did it-we made...
...passive resistance during the British salt monopoly. There was the shrewd lawyer-diplomat putting his hand over an inquisitive British reporter's mouth or quipping on arrival in London in 1931: "You people have your plus fours. These are my minus fours." In the best sequences, faded with age, there was "your father"-with metal-rimmed spectacles, a big, near-toothless grin, the dollar watch dangling from the dhoti-who tenderly encircled a little girl with a garland of flowers that she had brought...
...ever accomplished so much so early," says Hans Kmoch, secretary of the Manhattan Chess Club, where Bobby practices. The son of parents who were divorced when he was two, Bobby grew up under his mother's wing, learned the moves of chess from his older sister at the age of six. By the time he was nine, he played day and night, studied every chess book and magazine he could get his eager hands on. He was already beating most adults he could cajole into a game...
...markets not only by finding new uses for their products but because of the population increase. New households are being formed at the rate of 800,000 a year. In the 1960's, the increase will jump above 1,000,000 as the war babies reach marriageable age...
Before the turn of the century, she enjoyed a wicked fame, and children were spanked for reading her; in an age that would call a bed a bed only if it was a deathbed, Ouida called it a great bouncing ottoman. Her novels (most famed: Under Two Flags) were admired by writers as sophisticated as Max Beerbohm and G. K. Chesterton, who wrote: "Though it is impossible not to smile at Ouida, it is equally impossible not to read...