Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Waterlogged, a broad-as-Bevin parody of a Laborite, who "flips arahnd" laboring his "haitches" and belaboring the landed gentry: "The juke knocks 'is tea back and puts the saucer dahn, and 'e says, 'Sid,' 'e says, 'I'd like ter give this spa of yours the flippin' once over!' 'e says. Then ... she says, ''Ear! 'Ear!' she says. She's very fond of all this, this old-fashioned clobber, you know...
...Patrick: "We had to get away from the travel-guide idea. We wanted an adult magazine that would tell people more about the world so they could act intelligently when and if they set out to see it. We wanted a book that would inform them in a big, broad way." They had to ditch most of the excursion articles their predecessors had laid away, and convince authors that they didn't have to puff the places they wrote about...
They bluffed their way through their first "big, broad" portfolio pieces (New Mexico, Florida); the Mexican roundup in this issue, and next month's on Bermuda, are thoroughgoing, eyewitness staff jobs...
...Route" is the broad Moscow avenue down which the Packard limousines from the Kremlin streak every morning before dawn, carrying commissars and marshals to their country dachas after the night's work. Everyone who lives on The Route lives under special surveillance by the NKVD (now the MGB and MVD), and the NKVD has cause for suspicion. The U.S. visitor, James Ferguson, is introduced by his merry Russian friend Mitka to a significant little group of people who meet on The Route as conspirators...
Typical of the high-calibre material the Crimson will go up against tonight is a power-pregnant NYU machine led by versatile Irv Mondschein. A violet in name only, Mondschein broad jumps better than 25 feet, high jumps 6 feet 7 inches, and is entered in 5 events. To assist hi, the New Yorkers have a pair of 50 foot shot-putters, Mayer and Lampert, Max Padla, a 250-pound weightman, and the Callender twins...