Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...priest contacted by phone at St. Paul's said that one of the priests connected with the Church and spoken to newsdealers about the sale of "From the Housetops." The cleric, who refused to give his name, said "we didn't want it around the Square...
This vagueness, of course, is one of the strongest weapons the "crusaders" can muster. Bill Cunningham's Sunday denunciation of an M.I.T. professor is a good example: . . ."It appears he did do a little speaking around in parlors and such to quiet, if not secret, gatherings got up by dimly defined females, identified, like queens and red light denizens, by only first names. Officially, this man's profession is teaching young Americans." Apparently if you can't accuse a man of anything definite, he is considered guilty on the spot...
...vaudeville portion of the program, the acorbats, impresonater, and muscle squad, are as fine a group of performers in their lines as I have ever seen. Particularly incredible is a young blonde girl-acrobat who gets thrown around by her three male companions with such abandon that her hair is consistently dragging along the floor...
Self-conscious because of his youth and size, Winston hired a distinguished-looking man of 70 to go around with him as a front for his deals. Before he was 34 he had bought & sold such famous collections as Empire-Builder Collis P. Huntington's and Mining Tycoon E. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin's. He also learned that gem buying could be tricky. Once he bought $90,000 worth which he later found had been taken from Socialite Mrs. Isaac Emerson, wife of the Bromo-Seltzer king. Winston had to return...
During the war, Empson worked in England for the BBC; he married, and then returned to Peking National University, where he intends to stay. Last summer, however, he taught at Kenyon College, in Ohio-a gentle, wiry little man who, as one friend put it, "wandered around in a cloud of black beard, talking animatedly to himself...