Word: cocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yore, when sacred cows were sizzled on their sticks, are gone and dead. The Lampoon hesitates between offensive iconoclasm and dull despair. If the reader is burdened with the journal's sadism, think of the staff which produces it. as the poet observed upon emerging from the Game Cock one November evening in the 18th century...
...ranks of modern painting since Cezanne, Picasso is represented here by several stages in his ever-changing process of vision. The late canvas Algerian Women, I, provides something of an anti-climax, more than a bit careless and in no way comparable to such definitive statements as Dog and Cock of the twenties, Woman Seated Before a Mirror of the thirties, or as early a gem as La Toilette of the Rose Period. Even here, however, the master's touch, a knowledgeable intuition, comes through despite whatever faults exist. Less can be said of the bronze, automobile-headed Baboon with...
Alas for the poor Senate anti-rackets committee when Teamster Vice President James Hoffa "swaggered into the McClellan hearing like a crowing cock into a coop of capons." The illusion is perfect, with the committee certainly discovering its impotence in the fray, but we'll bet our bottom forceps that Hoffa joins the capon ranks in no time. New Capon Hoffa, certainly economically "fattened for the table" (Webster), will join the docile when the committee leaves the roost for the chopping block...
This was a smashing comedown for James Riddle Hoffa. Only 77 hours earlier he had swaggered into the McClellan hearings like a crowing cock into a coop of capons. At first he had arrogantly demanded permission to edit and change the records of the hearings-a barefaced attempt that would enable him to square his imminent testimony with later established fact. For a while Hoffa had even seemed to be in charge. He led Michigan's bumbling Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Ives down a primrose path. There...
Former winners turn out in their bright livery (now red instead of Doggett's orange) and proud 12-oz. silver arm badges to cock critical eyes from official launches. The contestants themselves train for months. This year Ken Collins, 21, a tireless lighterman from Bermondsey, sprinted into an early lead as they slid past Southwark Bridge and Saint Paul's. Behind him came Bob Gibbs, Jack Smith, Ken Green, Dave Reed and Malcolm Troubridge. Still in front when he passed the finish line at Chelsea after 27 min. 20 sec. of rowing, he was only eleven seconds ahead...