Word: dropper
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...shorts in Hollywood and was in danger of sinking into an un-Maxwellian obscurity, when the postwar wave of international prosperity brought her back with a new cast of characters. Now she was a newspaper columnist, playing for an audience of millions her roles of social arbiter, super name-dropper, gossip and buffoon...
Over cocktails with French Ambassador Herve Alphand a few weeks earlier, the adroit name-dropper dropped into Al-phand's pocket a list of U.S. cultural leaders (among them: Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern) who had never been accorded the Legion d'Honneur. As White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. later told Lyons: "You were to have been invited, but the French ambassador suddenly brought in a long guest list-and it left no room for you." At Horizon House, a five-room cottage for the disabled at New York University's Institute of Physical Medicine...
...more successful is the "Great Name Dropper." This is almost good. Like many recent hits, the words are simple. The chorus consists of a series of "Da da da da da da" etc., sung energetically and quite convincingly. The verses, made up solely of assorted names, are less exciting, but the whole effect is favorable. "Shades" Felson's sax is properly guttural, and is reminiscent of a quacking duck. Delightful...
Henry James was a master hint dropper. In the novel of sensibility, a hint often drops with a sizable psychological bang, but in the theater a hint dropping is about the same as one hand clapping...
Nothing much happens in these stories, and nothing much is meant to happen. There is tension without release, motion without direction. As a mask dropper, Lowry keeps reappearing under names that are part symbol, part joke and part hoax: Sigbjørn Wilderness, Kennish Drumgold Cosnahan, Roderick McGregor Fairhaven. It would be easy to dismiss these characters as anxious bores if they were not also unholy ghosts, shadows of a perturbed spirit, "ghouls of past delirium, wounds to other souls, ghosts of actions approximating to murder, betrayals of self and I know not what, ready to leap out and destroy...