Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Circus-minded Robert Kerr of Oklahoma found a niche in his political sideshow for others in the President's Cabinet and aides: "Bull Dog Charlie Wilson and his dog act−energetic bird dogs, howling kennel dogs"; "grinning Jim Hagerty and his most fascinating medicine puppet show"; "NoseDive Benson, the flexible man"; "Give-a-Million McKay, the give-away king"; "hapless Harold Stassen, the dying young man on the flying trapeze"; "the little strongman, Sherman Adams, the one Republican who won't run for Vice President. He declines to stop being President...
...would create a hunt, a concert, or a table-top display of drawing-room conceits. The Hand Kiss is part of a humorous circle of distractions derived from Molière, in which the gallant's daring is brought to nothing by the lady's jealous lap dog and busy blackamoor...
...French mock hero of Five A.M. has a bad case of the hoo-ha's. His creator, Jean Dutourd. 36, is an accomplished satirical duelist (A Dog's Head, The Best Butter) who likes nothing better than to blood his pen on the foibles and pomposities of the French middleclass. He subscribes to the Andre Malraux dictum that France is "saturated with lies," and attacks those lies with what the French call "intellectual rigor." In Five A.M. this verges on intellectual rigor mortis, for Author Dutourd finds and leaves his novel's pathetic protagonist more dead than...
...studying at Purdue when a Danish classmate persuaded him to try his hand at running a carnival stand. The two men got a truck from a concession agency and joined the Northern Exposition Shows, "touring Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas. At his "foot-long"' (hot dog) stand, Krassowski not only developed into an authority on carnies, he became a carny-a title conferred only upon those who have been fully accepted by one of the most clannish communities...
...dealer parlance, a "creampuff" is a really good used car; a "dog" is just that...