Word: bowl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture offers one spiffy spoof of the '205, a Prohibition party with hoofing on the pool table, dunking in the fish pond and a charge at the punch bowl with drawn sabers. And there are some swell lines for those who relish the era's nasal note of prosperous disillusion. "There won't ever be no patter of little feet in my house," drones one pickled tomato, "unless I want to rent some mice." Best of all, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee sing real well, and pretty often...
...sounds are balmy as a West Indian zephyr, satisfyingly in tune, and played with carefree spirit. The rhythms are intricately Afro-Cuban, e.g., meringue, samba, mambo, although they eventually fall into a predictable pattern. High points: a gimp-gaited calypso about a cricket upset ("Who taught you to bowl, Australia?"), and another that laments some aspects of the latest white man's invasion, a number called Brown-Skinned...
Lincoln points with particular pride to the cars' safety features. The "deep-dish" steering wheel and its spokes-all flexible -are shaped like a bowl, with the end of the steering post set deep inside. In a crash, the driver would hit the flexible rim instead of the rigid post. Other safety items: door latches designed so as not to spring open on impact, a glareless instrument panel, seat belts (optional), a shatter-resistant rear-view mirror...
...jumped at the chance to have David all to himself for the first time. Barbara Eisenhower agreed to let her son spend five days with Grandfather before he returned to his home in Fort Belvoir, Va. That night Ike set the table himself, and placed a steaming bowl of his vegetable soup in front of David...
CHARLES F. MURPHY, Croker's successor, came out of New York's Gas House district, took a job as driver on the "Blue Line" horse cars, saved $500 and opened a saloon. He sold a schooner of beer and a bowl of soup for 5? and refused to serve women customers. Named Tammany leader of the Gas House district, Murphy took station by a Second Avenue lamppost at 9 o'clock each evening, ready to transact business, personal and political, with all comers. In the year 1910, as Tammany's Boss, Murphy won control of both...