Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly three years as Secretary of the Navy, Charles Sparks Thomas toured the Navy's far-flung fleets and shore bases, learned to be a persuasive spokesman for the Navy's hopes and ambitions in the jet-missile age and an ardent defender of its more venturesome officers. But Thomas, World War I naval aviator, was no Navy zealot. He paid proper heed to his civilian bosses, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson and President Eisenhower, was equally forceful in passing the civilian word back to the Navy. Result: Charlie Thomas ably kept the Navy on course as it steamed...
...Sports Car Club of America. Paying no mind to young Reventlow's third-place victory in an amateur sports-car race in Florida a year ago, the club, which permits no minors to race under its aegis, suspended Lance upon learning that he had fibbed about his age. Said Racer Reventlow: "Now that my secret is out. I can only apologize...
Patience and Prudence Mclntyre, 14 and 11 years old respectively, are just like most girls their age except that they have a daddy who is a pianist-songwriter (The Money Tree) and full of bright ideas. One day Daddy-Mark Mclntyre-took them over to a recording studio and played his arrangement of the old Lee David-Billy Rose heart-thumper, Tonight You Belong to Me, while the girls cut a record as a birthday gift for Grandmother. When a musical friend of the family heard the record, "she flipped," and when Daddy submitted the disk to Liberty Records, President...
...primer on the new tongue in the current Holiday, Fadiman classifies the M.C.s of the top quiz and interview shows as the Noah Websters and Fowlers of the age. Writes he: "They employ certain mandatory words and phrases, now becoming part of our general vocabulary: but seriously to indicate that what follows is to be duller than what has preceded; definitely for yes; great or wunnerful to express mild approval, or often merely to show that the M.C. has heard and noted a statement by the interviewee; he's so right; I've got news for yuh; that...
...little lady in the evening"-he paid lip service to the first, indulged rarely in the second, concentrated wholeheartedly on the third. While priest of San Luca in Venice, he took as his mistress Angioletta Bellaudi, a married woman who had been little better than a prostitute since the age of ten. Their first child barely missed being born on a sidewalk, with Father da Ponte probably acting as midwife ("The kind of incident that happens every day," he said). Ignoring a reprimand by the vicar-general, Da Ponte and Angioletta next opened a brothel-Da Ponte, "still...