Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...included in Cartoonist Al Capp's "small group of the unbalanced," etc., which has given him so much pain [Feb. 18]. In the loneliness of my basement studio I am eternally grateful that I have never degraded my talent or my conscience nor sold my soul-for a bowl of mud-mushrooms...
...wife of the Under Secretary of the Treasury: in place of a corsage, she sported a miniature display of the medals that she won as a WAC in World War II. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who does not hold with such flossy doings, hovered so long behind the punch bowl that a fellow finally offered him a cupful. Scotch-Drinker Mr. Sam was incredulous: "Are you serious?" he asked. This was the last chance this year to invite Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, and Ike pointedly passed it up. The only Congressman so neglected, Joe allowed that he didn...
...mysterious and omniscient figure who takes a job as children's companion and domestic aide in order to get background for a lampooning novel about suburbia. He has several classic moments--among them a wonderfully droll bit when he chastises an infant for throwing cereal by emptying the bowl on the youngster's head. Maureen O'Hara and Robert Young perform adequately as the harassed couple in typical domestic comedy fashion with soap-opera naivete. The script is often forced and depends on such cliches as prying neighbors, bosses chasing their secretaries, and the like...
...other pretty trinkets. But only at her first appearance, coming-with snow on her picture hat-into a restaurant filled with ghostly elegance, to dine alone, to struggle with asparagus and be rebuffed by corn, to clip a lobster's claws and dip gloved fingers in a finger bowl-only then does Lillie achieve a definitive grandeur de folie, or the Follies recapture the grandeur that was Rome...
...sophomore, he is more than a match for the gangling giants he plays against. With his twisting one-hand jump shot Don easily earned the Most Valuable Player award at this winter's Orange Bowl tournament, almost alone has boosted Pitt to a 13-9 record.