Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Possum"), T. S. Eliot is a considerate, avuncular Puck who writes rhymes about cats to entertain their children and likes to address letters in verse ("Postman, propel thy feet/And take this note to greet / The Mrs. Hutchinson / Who lives in Charlotte Street . . ."). Eliot is a devoted Sherlock Holmes fan, is apt to emerge from his room clad in Holmesian dressing gown and slippers, and address his startled friend: "My dear Hayward, I am put in-mind of the incident in Bosnia, at the time of our struggle with the Professor over the Crown Prince's jewels...
Guglielmo Emanuel, editor-in-chief of Milan's Corriere Delia Sera, Italy's most influential newspaper, has managed to fill the wartime gap in his file of TIME, to which he has subscribed from our first year of publication. A back-of-the-book fan, he told Jones: "No other magazine- popularizes medicine, science, etc. in the same way-easy to read, but not superficial...
Every confirmed Godfrey fan knows that from one moment to the next he may erupt into ribaldry, beery pathos or waspish exasperation. When a joke lays an egg, he will pettishly blame his writers. And he reacts sharply to criticism: hearing that William Paley thought the Godfrey TV show "lacked movement," Arthur brought on a line of hula dancers and leered into the TV camera: "Is that enough movement for you, Bill...
...Mullins has done a grave disservice by wrenching two separate sentences from my article, quoting them out of context, and thus creating a wholly false impression. His column served to fan the flames of hatred and distrust. This I deplore, for I am utterly opposed to racial and religious prejudice...
Cheer & Perseverance. To top off his triumphant leap into the social whirl, quick-acting Sir Thomas, never a yachting fan, surprised everyone by issuing a transatlantic challenge for the America's Cup. During the next 30 years he combined yachting with business, raced five different Shamrocks against U.S. defenders, never won the cup. A year before Lipton's death in 1931, Comedian Will Rogers wrote a letter to the New York Times suggesting that "everybody send $1 apiece for a fund to buy a loving cup for Sir Thomas Lipton, bigger than the one he would have...