Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marlon thought for awhile that he would like to enter the ministry. Talked out of that, he spent the summer of 1943 as a tile fitter in a drain factory (he was turned down for the draft because of a trick knee). In the fall he went to New York to live with sister Frances, then studying painting at New York's Art Students League. After four days as an elevator operator at Best's department store (he quit because it embarrassed him to call out things like "lingerie''). Marlon went to study dramatics with Stella...
...last week, some 300 admen at an American Association of Advertising Agencies convention heard a talk that did their ulcers no good. Declared Ad Expert Horace Seymour Schwerin: "Of over $400 million which will be spent on TV advertising this year, well over $100 million is going down the drain. This is expensive garbage...
...Meyer, an actor of such massive port and seemingly minute intelligence that his performance may be recognized as the definitive Hollywood attempt to characterize the eternal flatfoot. His best line: "Nayun years ay pre-sink capting. An' dis is duh firs' time I ben pullt inta duh drain...
...sink and disposes of 1½ quarts of garbage in a minute or two was announced by James. Inc.. of Independence, Kans., maker of portable dishwashers. Water from the faucet pours through the top of the lightweight machine while blades churn the refuse, which is funneled down the drain. The James garbage disposer cleans itself, will not run with the top open. Price...
Distress & Surprise. The Republican strategy conceived by Millikin was intended simply to head off the George amendment with a more palatable substitute. The George amendment would drain $2.4 billion from the Treasury; the Millikin amendment would cut Government revenue only $960 million. Much to the distress of the Republicans, the Democrats (joined by Maverick Republican Bill Langer) voted down Millikin's amendment 49-46. Then, much to their own surprise, the Republicans, joined by Virginia's Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, Colorado's Edwin Johnson and Florida's Spessard Holland, defeated the George amendment...