Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boxing Commissioner Christenberry demanded a full report from the principals, the referee and the judges. It looked as though Wrestling Fan Christenberry might have to give boxing's dirty linen a much-needed airing...
...Africa fan from boyhood, Artist Adrian painted many an imaginary African scene before he ever laid eyes on the continent. In 1949 he and his wife took a motor trip through the Sudan, Kenya and the Belgian Congo, "to see if my African dream were true." Bumping over 4,000 miles of trails, he decided that he had been right in the main. But he picked up a lot of new ideas. At home, working from notes and memory, he turned out the current show's canvases in a year and a half...
...Rites of Fall On football Saturdays many a football fan finds a spot of cheer in a nip from a bottle or flask. This week, for the fastidious fan who does not like it neat-but wants it neater-an enterprising Texas firm will hawk a "Survival Kit" before the Rice-Clemson game. The kit: a plastic bag containing twelve ice cubes, three bottles of soda, six paper cups and a bottle opener...
...advises readers on such diverse subjects as how to rid their chimneys of bats, how to tell a male cocklebur from a female cocklebur (a female has burs), and whether armadillos are good to eat (they are). No one catches H. Mewhinney with his patter down. When one fan insisted that bookkeeper was the only English word with three double letters, Mewhinney gave him at least three more: "Poo-peepee (a seaman who is peeped at from a poop deck), raccoonnookkeeper (the custodian of a coon hollow) and barroom-moodduller (one who dulls the jovial mood in a barroom)." When...
Listening to the records, many will feel like the Frost fan who once told the poet he never knew how to read Frost until he heard him talk. But as Frost reads Mending Wall, Two Tramps in Mud Time, The Death of the Hired Man, and 21 others, it becomes plain that, barring shyness, any Vermont hired hand would know how to read the poems right the first time...