Word: avidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent money like a sailor just ashore. With an expense account of about $100,000 a year, he was the town's most avid check-snatcher and tipper, its most unflagging patron of flower shops and buyer of sparkling burgundy (which he called "bubble ink"). His pinkish-blond hair was as much a trademark as his open-throat shirt, his fetish against wearing hats, ties or overcoats. "I'm a publicity hound," he told Cleveland sportwriters when he took over the Indians. And ex-Marine Bill Veeck, who had lost a leg as a result of combat injuries...
When the October 8 to 18 issues of the CRIMSON reached me on the same day (fie on the circulated department!) I read all of them with my usual avid interest. In the issue of October 8 was a feature story on The Dana Palmer House, written by Maxwell E. Foster, Jr., and I thought rather brightly...
...admit that I'm an avid Cardinal fan and that Stan Musial is my favorite player, but even if all that weren't true, I'd still think Ernest Hamlin Baker's Sept. 5 cover one of the cutest and cleverest I have ever seen...
...chaste white marble walls, Cokesbury carries 300 different kinds of Bibles plus multidenominational religious supplies ranging from Sunday-school buttons to Torahs for synagogues. But this is a sideline to a fervently commercial trade that sells 70,000 secular titles to some of the country's most avid book buyers. Dallas spends about $6 per capita on books annually (the U.S. average...
Thus, for the 2,462nd time, Portia Faces Life (Mon. through Fri., 5:15 p.m. E.D.T., NBC) brings to its avid listeners the innermost thoughts and self-sacrificial impulses of its heroine. Considerably less bemused at Portia's unflagging nobility is her creator; in fact, tall, tense Mona Kent, writer of Portia Faces Life, is betraying her stainless heroine for the first time. In a novel to be published next week (Mirror, Mirror on the Wall; Rinehart; $3), Scripter Kent tells the story of "a girl who wrote soap operas and tried to live her life according...