Word: dropper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into coats for friends such as Adams and Payne. By his standards his was the open, honest hand of friendship, and what he got in return was only the kind of help one friend would render another. Says one of his closest Boston friends: "He's a name dropper and a Scotch drinker, and he has a weakness of talking too much, dropping too many names and things." By last weekend his lavish hand and careless tongue had dropped considerably the name of the best of his friends, Sherman Adams...
...Name Dropper. In Gary, Ind., Peter Mandich, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Lake County sheriff, complained to the election board that his opponent. Peter Mandich, was capitalizing on his name...
...Name-Dropper. In Milwaukee, Marquette University Law School Senior Michael Peter Murray Jr., 27, filed a petition to change his middle name to Patrick because "an Irishman named Patrick enjoys certain social and business advantages...
...Name-Dropper. In Milwaukee, forced by the election commission to run for alderman under his full name. Roderick Peter Lanser started proceedings to have his name legally changed to Rod, explained in circuit court that Roderick sounded too fancy, wealthy and effeminate for the voters in his ward...
...KHRUSHCHEV is a notorious dropper of bricks. But no mere slip of his fidgety tongue can explain away his fantastic charge that the British, the French and the Americans had "started the second world war, sent troops against our country, and these troops were the troops of Hitlerite Germany...