Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is Calvin Coolidge, in September 1923, delivering himself of a characteristically terse remark when a U.S. Treasury Department aide brings his first salary check as President of the U.S.: "Call often." And George Bernard Shaw, in December of that year, responding to a request for his sentiment of the season: "Santa Claus be blowed!" Winston Churchill's scornful one-word description of Britain's postwar Labor Government: "Queuetopia." And President Harry Truman, in December 1950, writing to the music critic who had panned his daughter Margaret's singing: "Some day I hope to meet you. When...
...much of Greece's exuberant, explosive spirit. The image of a surtaki-dancing, owzo-glass-smashing people is being replaced by that of a docile folk whose chief concern seems to be getting to church on time and keeping the young girls out of miniskirts. Not since Calvin put the fear of God into Geneva has any regime so devoted itself to reforming the moral character of its citizenry...
Dead-End Street. Newark's Negroes find plenty wrong with the city. Although Newark has two Negroes on its nine-man city council, neither was on hand to fill the ghetto's leadership vacuum during the riots: Councilman Irvine Turner was ill; Councilman Calvin West was in Boston for a convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The city has no civilian review board (Mayor Addonizio refers all charges of police brutality to the FBI). Nor did it have any Negro police officers above the rank of lieutenant before last week (when Addonizio hastily...
...only set a style for lonely movie heroines but may well have spurred the development of contact lenses. During the long Victorian era, wit had hardly been considered a feminine attribute. Dorothy Parker proved again that bitchiness could be the soul of wit. When she heard the news that Calvin Coolidge had died, she asked: "How can they tell?" Of Katharine Hepburn she said: "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." After a Broadway evening, she reported: "The House Beautiful is the play lousy...
Three burly Yale men could give McCurdy 5 more firsts. Captain Bob Greenlee won the IC4A shot put with a throw of 55 feet, and sophomore Calvin Hill has jumped 25 feet in the broad jump and 50 feet in the triple jump. Newton's Mark Young is IC4A 440 champ and could also...