Word: cockalorums
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...best high-cockalorum manner, Harry Truman sashayed through Texas, doing his bit for Jack Kennedy and the Democrats. More than 700 well-heeled Texans paid $50 a plate for a roast-beef dinner and a full serving of the old Harry in San Antonio. And Harry was steaming. "This Republican outfit doesn't know the definition of parity," he cried. "All the prices have gone down, down, down. And the damn farmers still vote the Republican ticket. They ought to have their heads examined...
...Wreath. In the thunderous heyday of Prohibition gangsterism, Roger the Terrible was the jaunty cockalorum of northwest Cook County. After leasing a few trucks to rumrunners, he abandoned a $50,000-a-year automobile business for bootlegging-and thereupon set in motion a relentless procession of events that led to his death. With a partner, Matt Kolb, he carved out an empire of suburban speakeasies, controlled a big slot-machine franchise, sold 18,000 bottles of illicit beer each week, boasted that he made $1,000,000 a year. He also made enemies: to Al Capone and his henchmen, Touhy...
...intellectual carnage inside French Communism was also devastating. While Thorez was praising the "exalting example of the Soviet Union" in shooting down Hungarians, Jean-Paul Sartre, playwright, novelist and grand high cockalorum of existentialism, spoke up for the disenchanted. Sartre, who once wrote one of the theater's most effective anti-Communist plays. Red Gloves, and then wished he had not, defected once again. ''Intervention [in Hungary] was a crime," he cried in a four-page protest in the anti-Communist L'Express. "The Red Army fired on an entire people. And the crime...
Explosions in a Cellar. For four weeks, patrons of New York's Paramount Theater have been pinned against its back wall by Stan Kenton's klaxon-loud "progressive" blasts. Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater. At 52nd and Broadway, the intersection of commercial acumen and "art" in popular music, the Clique Club opened its doors and let the mob in. Buddy Rich, a Tommy Dorsey alumnus and bop fellow traveler, shot spectacular explosions from his drums, and a velvet-skinned Negro named Sarah Vaughan squeezed her toothpaste-smooth...
...just blown his lines in the Sunday-school pageant. In the last six months mild-voiced young Alec has provoked the Old Vic's stage into varied and resonant life. As the Fool in King Lear, Time & Tide found him near "perfection." The Daily Telegraph thought his cockalorum De Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac "a remarkable feat...