Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busy, as they usually are during any national crisis, taking care of their nation's animals. Rangers toured Wimbledon Common in a pony cart passing out food to wild birds. A fireman risked his life on the ice of a lake at Stanmore to save an Alsatian wolf dog that had fallen through. An R.A.F. helicopter winged its way across Suffolk to rescue icebound swans, and a Mrs. Phyllis Buckle, 57, of London did her bit by carrying 6 Ibs. of corn, two loaves of bread and a hot-water bottle to the pigeons huddling in Trafalgar Square...
...such musicals as Lady in the Dark and Lost in the Stars. But in this album he is still the unreconstructed composer of gutter nihilisms. In one ditty. Singer Lenya is a bitter, jilted girl who snarls at her indifferent lover: "Take that pipe out of your kisser, you dog!" In the chilling Berlin Requiem she sings the horrifying vision of a drowned girl whose body is decomposing, limb by limb, as "God gradually forgot her, first her face, then her hands and finally her hair." Funniest for U.S. listeners is a moaning ragtime song written in a German...
...elected by the people, nor by old-line machine bosses like The Last Hurrah's Frank Skeffington (see above), but by slick advertising boys on Madison Avenue. A candidate will be pretested and merchandised like "a can of beer, a squeeze tube of deodorant, a can of dog food...
...national politics: "I don't want no more Republicans ... I just think Republicanism is upside down. If we have a good presidential candidate, Louisiana will go Democratic again this year." Earl hoped that President Eisenhower would not run because "he might accidentally win." Red-eyed and frog-voiced, dog-tired, Earl Long concluded his account of last week's election: "I got votes from the poor, the middle class and the rich class, and from thousands of our fine colored people. I never let up speaking. I feel very humble. I am deeply grateful for the confidence that...
...faced, spindly little Negro boy was broke, cold and hungry that winter day in Boston in 1902. He did not even know how old he was (he guessed maybe 16), but he knew well enough why he and his dog had run away from their Weymouth, Nova Scotia home. "My pa was always lickin' me," explained young...