Word: cocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven Wonders. In Fifty Years of Popular Mechanics (Simon & Schuster, $5), the present editors of the magazine (circ. 1,169,645) cock an uncritical eye at a half-century of publication, which reflects their nostalgic concern for the changing gadgetry of the years. The editors may have been slow to spot the Wright brothers, but by 1909 one of the first of a long line of build-it-yourself articles had Popular Mechanics readers constructing their own "gliding machine." Three years later, after polling 1,000 scientists, the magazine listed the Seven Wonders of the Modern World: "wireless, telephone, aeroplane...
Debating is not a spectacle (as a flea circus or a cock-fight is). It is an exercise in articulative facility and quick wit. It is intended to entertain no one except the participants. The relation you find between lack of spectators and last week's double loss to Yale is beyond the grasp of all natural intellects...
Svelte sarong-sisters, Dorothy Lamour and Debra Paget, portly Alfred Hitch-cock, and Harry (The River) Breen, with their retinues of press agents and movie moguls will proceed under police escorts to the Sumner statue, near the information booth...
...turnips cries / Cry not when his father dies / It is proof that he would rather / Have a turnip than his father"). Many were satire. Some rhyme scholars believe that the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole's ministry-popularly known as the "Robinocracy"-gave rise to "Who killed Cock Robin?", and that Georgie Porgie was really King George...
...from Calico. Eldest son of a Manchester calico merchant, he dutifully sold the "disgusting, smelly stuff" till he was past 40. After business hours, as drama reviewer for the Manchester Guardian, he soaked up theatrical lore, fashioned a springy, cock-of-the-walk style all his own. With a little prompting from J.A. (as he often called himself), London capitulated, gave him enough critical portfolios for an unofficial ministry-of-arts. Some of his posts: drama critic of the Sunday Times, film critic of the Tatter, book reviewer for the Daily Express, theater commentator for BBC. For a time...