Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most impressive of the senior Tory leaders is 51-year-old Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, sometimes known as "deadpan David." A lawyer, he "took silk" when he was 33; only one man in British legal history did it at an earlier age, and that was in 1668. Attorney General in 1945, he was deputy chief prosecutor at the N¨urnberg trials...
...game in a more novel way last week. Claiming that he had lost his $26 weekly "salary" (a campus job plus room and board) after an injury suffered in spring practice, Ernest Nemeth, 24, a former Denver University guard, went to court to demand compensation. Said his attorney with deadpan conviction: "I definitely feel the boy comes within the meaning of an employee under the workman's compensation laws...
...least one specially designed course in the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Sample G.E. course: "Humanism in the West"-man's ideals, tensions, hopes and failures as seen through great books from the Iliad to the Waste Land. ¶ The U.S. Naval Academy, with one deadpan eye on West Point, reported that it had just fired one midshipman for cheating. (West Point's score so far this year: 90-odd.) ¶St. John's College, Annapolis (The Great Books), which last year decided to tonic its dwindling student body by taking in coeds...
...Comers Met In his deadpan, wryly humorous column, Meeting All Comers, in the Houston Post, H. (for Hubert) Mewhinney has earned a reputation as the city's know-it-all. He advises readers on such diverse subjects as how to rid their chimneys of bats, how to tell a male cocklebur from a female cocklebur (a female has burs), and whether armadillos are good to eat (they are). No one catches H. Mewhinney with his patter down. When one fan insisted that bookkeeper was the only English word with three double letters, Mewhinney gave him at least three more...
...about his best friends with love, brilliance and 20-20 vision. In his tough-tender first novel, The Catcher in the Rye (a Book-of-the-Month Club midsummer choice), he charts the miseries and ecstasies of an adolescent rebel, and deals out some of the most acidly humorous deadpan satire since the late great Ring Lardner...