Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lapels and got the games going for slim crowds on the day the decree came out. Florida Mobster Santo Trafficante Jr., who attended the famous gangland congress at Apalachin, N.Y. in November 1957, is still bossing the games at the Comodoro and the Sans Souci. He also keeps an eye on the Capri casino, where his associate is Mobster Charles ("The Blade") Tourine. Gambler Joseph Silesi. wanted for questioning after the New York barbershop murder of Top Hood Albert Anastasia, is casino manager at the Hilton. None of the mob makes a move without consulting Miami's Meyer Lansky...
...County Mayo is neither postcard-picturesque nor socio-economically underprivileged. He allows the audience to hear it as "superb and wild," but for Pegeen Mike Flaherty, who lives in it, it is "this place where you'll meet none but Red Linahan, has a squint in his eye, and Patcheen is lame in his heel, or the mad Mulrannies were driven from California and they lost in their wits"--not a decent man in the lot. Since Pegeen is a romantic, brainy, and spirited girl (well played by Helena Carroll with the right sort of peppery vigor), the local manpower...
Kermit Bud Laabs, comissioner of the Frontier Conference in the Southwest, bluntly opposed Griswold. "A swindle, my eye," he answered. "If athletic scholarships are a swindle why not use the same yardstick for measuring the value of scholarships awarded for other activities...
...bitten by a python and a rufus-beaked snake; one of his staff, while swimming, was bitten on the lip by a hissing sand snake. More than the animals and reptiles, Fothergill fears the dangers of diving into the lake where there is always the possibility of losing an eye on a tree branch or being impaled on a stake. Lions and elephants will be relatively easy to handle. Says Fothergill: "An elephant can swim a long way. It will merely be a matter of shepherding him in the right direction. As for lions-we have nets...
...wiry man with the booming voice refuted the story at the Yale swimming carnival of 1948 when he abruptly leaped into the pool, swam its width to resounding cheers. Once he went to the bottom of the pool in a diving helmet for a fish-eye view, quickly corrected a flaw in the stroke of one of his swimmers...