Word: eggheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked at a news conference in Trenton, NJ. what the term "egghead" means to him, Adlai Stevenson quickly replied: "I don't know the origin. I would only have this to say: 'Eggheads of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks!' " Later, in North Carolina, where he went to visit his sister, Mrs. Ernest Ives, and play golf, Stevenson developed a sudden back pain, was whisked off to a hospital, where doctors decided he has nothing to lose but a kidney stone...
...native princess (Suzan Ball). Eventually, Jeff gets fed up with his babes in the woods, and goes to bed with a bottle of whisky. "Sleep," he murmurs, "that's the stuff that knits the raveled sleave of care." But one session with Bartlett does not make an egghead, and next day Jeff is right back in the workaday world, braving the poison darts that come whistling through the Temple of the Rain Gods. All in all, the picture goes a long way toward explaining the nervous market...
...that old egghead T. Jefferson had been possessed of her spirit, he would never have suggested to the frightened appeasers who adopted our Declaration of Independence that they include in it those weasel words: "With a decent regard for the opinions of mankind...
Victor Mature, as the Greek slave Demetrius, is believable in a role similar to many he has played before. Jay Robinson, however, is scarcely plausible as a crotchety and petulant Caligula. While many have thought this emperor a monster, Robinson makes him a caricature of a contemporary egghead...
...while, last fall, I had it all straight in my head that an egghead was no Republican, and vice versa. Now you write up [Aug. 17] this fellow [Massachusetts' Governor] Herter, who sounds like a right guy to me, and if ever I heard an egghead described, to the life, it's Herter. The fellow reads books, understands art, thinks and is a Republican...