Word: dither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ginny" came out. All season, tall, bangsy Virginia Leigh, 17, had kept Manhattan society reporters in a dither. Not since Brenda Frazier had a sub-deb been so well managed; Ginny had even been wormed into the New York Sun as a society columnist: "The William Benjamins 2nd (Odette de Brunière) hope for a telephone during the New Year." And last week her debut had the hairy Daily News mewing about "a pale blue moon" and "pink mist." For her coming-out party, there was a blaze of pink candles, a bed of pink azaleas, baby spots playing...
...dinnerware by such topnotch U.S. designers as Eva Zeisel (Castleton China) and show-stopper Florence Forst. But to many Everyday Gallery visitors, one of the show's designers was an old table and dishpan friend: Russel Wright, who has thrown pottery makers-always a conservative lot-into a dither with the massive success of his American Modern dinnerware since...
...market place at Abbiategrasso the women were in a dither. "And this man in Milan," one of them was saying, "can tell, simply by touching a photograph, whether the person in the picture is dead or alive." At the edge of the chattering group dark-eyed, eleven-year-old Antonio Costa listened entranced. He decided to go home and try the trick himself...
...despite the dither. Britain provided enough rich, impressionable old ladies and idealistic young men to keep the movement going. In Hays Mews an office was always open where troubled souls could learn the trick of "two-way radio chats" with...
...prelates flew to Rome to receive the red hat. The air travelers from the U.S.: New York's Francis J. Spellman, Detroit's Edward Mooney, Chicago's Samuel Stritch, 83-year-old John J. Glennon of St. Louis, Bishop Thomas Tien of Tsingtao, China. In a dither of pride, TWA officials billed the flight-three gleaming, four-motored planes, "the most distinguished mass-flight of passengers across the North Atlantic in aviation history...