Word: ditto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Failing to secure reprieve in this direction, slighted lacrossemen (and others) might go back to the H.A.A. extravagance. It is reported, for example, that every member of the hockey squad receives a free pair of skates from the H.A.A., that tennis players get two free racquets apiece (ditto squash players and racquets), and that the H.A.A. pays three men overtime wages to collect blocking dummies from Soldiers Field after football practice everyday...
...rates, or public contracts. Most have dodged direct and personal political responsibility. They must dodge no longer. They are now desperately needed in big-time politics. The next time the Republicans take over, let us have more businessmen with political savvy and experience, ready and willing for public office. Ditto with the Democrats. Businessmen will enjoy politics. Politics can be even more interesting, and far more satisfying, than making money...
...hearty ditto to all you have to say about Dylan Thomas [May 30], but I am amazed, confused, and decidedly annoyed at the offhand manner in which you have dealt with Robert Frost . . . Did you seek to vault Thomas even higher in the literary castes by forcing Frost nearly out of the picture ? . . . Perhaps I misunderstood; I certainly hope...
Last week Donald Bartlett and his associates added to the excitement; they sold their "Miracle Mine?" to Manhattan Geologist-Engineer M. William Ditto, representing a number of interests, for an announced "$1,000,000." Actually, the for buyers paid only $35,000, promised to pay the rest in royalties...
...might annoy the U.S. (which he has-often done) or he might make a fool of himself (ditto). But baiting the U.S. is always a politically profitable exercise in Britain. As for making a fool of himself, Britons have never condemned any statesman for going anywhere with the hand of friendship extended-not even (at the time) Neville Chamberlain...