Word: beamish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BEAMISH...
...cartoons and notable short subjects: a beaming Ike playfully flicking balloons with Joe Martin; Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge cold-shouldering Harold Stassen; Keynoter Langlie imitating Keynoter Frank ("How long, O how long?") Clement; the Eisenhowers and Nixons grouped together beneath the rostrum; Ike's proud-grandpa chuckle when beamish Len Hall made eight-year-old David Eisenhower honorary convention chairman; Joe Martin steadying old (82) Herbert Hoover with a thoughtful touch of the elbow; the fixed, pasty smile on the face of Harold Stassen; the sheer spectacle of thousands of balloons cascading overhead as bells, sirens, organ and band...
...requiring the owners to run at least four trains daily. "They," said Miss Bessemer scornfully of the Transport Commission, "have got to keep the law just like everyone else." Fire in her eyes, she enlisted the aid of her M.P., a Tory who answers to the name of Tufton Beamish...
...Fernando Valley mansion near Hollywood. The Yuletide cynosure: a rooftop Santa Claus, made of bamboo, hammering away at a wrought-iron piano garnished with a twinkly candelabra, while loudspeakers blared hi-fi recordings of the schmalziest music on the far side of Bethlehem. Beamed the spectacle's beamish mastermind, Liberace: "I just love Christmas...
...Place has no church, no chapel, no cinema, no football field. About all it does have are three streets of red brick houses, 259 inhabitants who mostly work in the local Beamish Mary coalpit, and a hearty dislike for Durham County authorities. For No Place learned last week that Durham's planners had condemned it to slow extinction...