Word: dabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knees before the Holy Door of St. Peter's, white-mantled Pope Pius XII lifted a golden trowel. In the center of the door's threshold, he placed a dab of slaked lime with the words: "In fide et virtute Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Filii Dei Vivi [In the faith and the strength of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God]." Continuing to intone the Latin formula, he placed lime to the right and left on the threshold, then laid three bricks-one gilt and two silvered-in the mortar. Thus, a year after...
...DAB's cartoons, however, maintain a consistently high level of humor. In addition to the familiar classics which graced this very page in years gone by, one finds the ill-shaven young man telling a quartet of follow Communists in Cronin's: "Oh, don't get the wrong. Some of my best friends are club men." Or the doctor in the Hygiene Department yelling at a student running a temperature so high that his hair is singed: "What do you want for $30... TWO aspiris...
First songwriter: "You know, the catchiest little song has been running through my head. It goes like this. Dum dum dah dah, doo dah doo dum dum, doe dah dah dah dab. I think I'll call it "Squash for Sale...
When a young woman crashed her Mercury convertible smack-dab into his black limousine on Long Island's Grand Central Parkway, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 80, calmly surveyed the wreckage, told her: "I hope your parents won't be too severe. Just tell them it was the other guy's fault...