Word: elisha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elisha Perkins was reputed to be able to cure almost any kind of ailment with two small pieces of "magnetized" metal. A couple of centuries ago, his "magnetic tractors" allegedly drew diseases out of such celebrities as George Washington. He was discredited only when his magnetic tractors were discovered to be two pieces of painted wood. Since Elisha Perkins' day, medical charlatanism has made great strides, notes Dr. William H. Gordon in the medical magazine GP. Frequently the quackery is keyed to news of medical progress. Use of radioactive isotopes in medicine, for example, inspired some Comanche County, Texas...
...missed the opportunity to mention that there is a question whether Alexander Bell or Elisha Gray was the inventor of the telephone...
Another way to fight the recession, said Whirlpool Corp. Chairman Elisha Gray II, is to take a close look at products already on the shelf and see why they are not selling. "You can only conclude that it is because the merchandise we manufacturers have offered has not been attractive enough. Our past market experience has told us that we had overdesigned some of the features we were offering -I refer particularly to the complexity of some of today's modern home appliances -and our review has brought us back a little to products that are simpler to operate...
...Choreographer Balanchine, it was the fourth premiere in an amazing nine-week stretch. The first was Square Dance, a whimsical leap between cultures. To the chamber music of Corelli and Vivaldi and the cadenced commands of Square Dance Caller Elisha C. Keeler, dancers executed the disciplined, classic patterns that Balanchine has made a trademark. The mixture was unlikely, but when Keeler had twanged out his last call ("That is all; the dance is ended/ The music is finished; the caller's winded''), audiences cheered the blend of do-si-do and pas de deux...
...Were Governor." "Eisenhower has lit the fires of hate,'' intoned Mississippi's Senator James Oliver Eastland. Alabama's Governor James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim'') Folsom pledged that he would disband Alabama's National Guard before he would let Eisenhower order it into federal service. "We still mourn the destruction of Hungary," said Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, going his colleague, Dick Russell, one better. "Now the South is threatened by the President of the U.S. using tanks and troops in the streets of Little Rock. I wish I could cast one vote...