Word: cluckings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right Man. The Negro is arriving at name-on-the-door status at a time when starting salaries for all kinds of graduates can only make old grads cluck in envy. The best-paid are top-graded engineers, whose B.S. degrees will earn them between $600 and $625 a month. Even graduates in the lowest-paying fields-government, journalism and general business-stand to begin at $400 to $500. William Eagleson, a 22-year-old Negro from M.I.T. (B.S. in metallurgy), was interviewed on campus by seven companies, accepted invitations for four plant tours, decided to enter Ford...
...they haven't chosen Baby's name yet," sighed Lady Douglas-Home to a cluck of newshens. "They've tried everything. They've even been through the 'Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names and found nothing." Asked when the infant daughter of Diana Douglas-Home Wolfe-Murray would be christened, Granny Douglas-Home, chuckling at her own fun, replied: "I don't know-she can't be christened until they've got a name for her, can she?" At week's end the Big Problem at 10 Downing Street was resolved...
...your editorial policy will be tempered by my remembering your respectful gesture to T. H. White [Jan. 24]. Thank you for writing so well of one who wrote so well. And thank you for placing him where he truly belonged: The World. ALLISON HILL ROULSTON New York City A Cluck & A Cackle...
...rest of the ladies are brought into the business mainly to give afternoon audiences something to cluck over. Shelley Winters carries on a dalliance with a little-theater director mainly to escape the boredom of life with her lummox of a husband. Claire Bloom, a nymphoholic divorcee, goes for delivery boys and straight gin. Only Glynis Johns and John Dehner, as a sort of artsy-daftsy fun couple, manage to bring a whiff of fresh air to the otherwise musky proceedings. While declaiming "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion" into a tape recorder one afternoon...
...thousands. If a customer orders a dress or a suit that has already been bought by another, Nona and Sophie mention the fact. If the customer still wants it (and if the earlier buyer is Jackie, she nearly always does), she can have it. Nona and Sophie still cluck with dismay about the time last fall when Mrs. Paley, a woman who should know better, swept into the White House dressed in a Chez Ninon special, and then suffered the supreme embarrassment: there was Jackie in the identical dress. Sighs Sophie: "Jackie was a good sport about the whole thing...