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...Tide last week, President Arnold R. Deutsch of Manhattan's Deutsch & Shea agency praised the magazine's "right note on the subject of 'hucksters.' " Richard L. Scheidker, of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, wrote that it would be better to "clasp the term 'huckster' to our bosoms . . . use it to describe the bad actors in advertising." Nashville's H. C. Daniels, advertising manager of the Methodist Publishing House, complained that Wakeman's usage had now even got into Webster's. "When it is discovered . . . that I am in the advertising...
Sentimentalist. In Fort Wayne, Ind., attendants at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home noticed a mourner fondly clasp the hand of the deceased, later noticed that a $150 ring was missing from the corpse's finger...
...Finally, Pern and President Farrell appeared together on the palace balcony. The crowd roared. An afternoon newspaper had printed pictures of the demonstrators sneeringly titled: "The shirtless ones [descamisados] who roam our streets." Now Perón caught up the sneer as a weapon, shouted that he wanted to clasp all such descamisados to his bosom. Ever since, Peronistas have celebrated the day of the descamisados' loyalty. It was Perón's March on Rome. Four days later, Juan and Evita were married in a Secret civil ceremony...
...glow seemed to spread over the whole General Assembly on its opening day of firmly fixed smiles and heavy hand-pumping. Delegates exchanged greetings with an almost perfectly uniform ritual: strong right-hand clasp, affectionate left-hand pat on the back. The official nurse, on duty just across a corridor from the General Assembly Hall, dispensed only one headache powder the first day (to a Chilean delegate...
...came into existence December 5, 1776 at William and Mary in Virginia. It introduced all the ritual and mysticism employed by contemporary fraternities--an oath of secrecy, a badge, mottoes in Greek and Latin, a code of laws, an elaborate form of initiation, a seal, and a special hand-clasp...