Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professional Pride. In Manhattan, contrite Kibitzer Salvator Coliarono told the judge that Card-Player Francisco Vella was well justified in shooting him in the thigh...
...return for his membership card and the L in his coat lapel, Robert Solomon Moore did a lot for Kansas City's bustling Lions' Club. When the club decided to present a desk set to President Truman last May, Moore said: "Well, I'm an old friend of Harry's and I'm going to Washington anyway. Why don't I give it to him in person?" The publicity he got was all any organization could ask for-a fine, clear picture of the President and Lion Moore, displayed in newspapers all over...
Victor Meyers' sudden resolution horrified a Seattle Times reporter named Doug Welch. Reason: the Times was running Vic for mayor to express its jaundiced opinion of the serious candidates, and it was Welch's chore to keep him funny. Welch gave Vic a card to hand to toastmasters. The card read...
...took him ten years to get the philosophy post, and only a few more to become the biggest drawing-card on the faculty. Characteristically, he did not relish so much success: large classes obliged him to give lectures; he preferred small groups...
...telling the newshawks at the Press Club: "It is a good thing I am not a woman. I would always be pregnant. I cannot say no." There is kindly, uncomfortable Herbert Hoover being photographed with three groups of visitors whose identity he asked about. "Morticians," Starling wrote on a card. With a typical fumble of the administration. Hoover was introduced to "five hundred bricklayers." There is Franklin Roosevelt listening to Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre and his White House quartet singing over the radio and then calling the station to offer Mclntyre a fat contract. "Who the hell are you?" asked...