Word: arpad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liquor shortages do not faze Arpad. New Year's Eve he will get tiddledy-boo drunk again. His nephew, Gabe, will have to pick up the pieces, pack Arpad safely home. It happens every year...
...Arpad is the last word in newspaper birds. He cavorts in the New York World-Telegram's weather stories, has become one of the big town's richest chuckles. A happy combination of oaf and genius, he is a blithe and silly little rooster, and the stories in which he appears have a cock eyed quality and an underlying mood of ennui. Samples...
...drawing of Arpad in a wheel chair, holding a blood donor card: "Arpad just looks as if he's worn out from donating his thimbleful of gore to the Red Cross. Actually he's a wreck from having mulled too long over the question of what it is when people say it looks like rain. What looks like rain? People look out a window at Cramholtz & Eder's furniture store and say, 'Oh, it looks like rain.' What does-Cramholtz & Eder's store?. . . Then of course there is the inevitable answer to it looks...
...this one, with a drawing of Arpad watching Gabe arrange sandbags: "These are, of course, nerve-racking times. . . . Today the Weather Bureau reported: 'This afternoon slowly rising temperatures. No snow or rain. Tonight not so cold. No precipitation.' Who asked them if there would be snow or rain? Who asked about precipitation? No one. They have begun anticipating. . . . Soon they will be sending stories out saying that there will be no sun in Hoboken, or no daylight in Canarsie...
Sure Thing. In Chicago, Arpad Sabados, 107, gave his recipe for longevity: retirement...