Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average Harvard fan, the fact that the Crimson football team adopted the A formation this year means little or nothing. Leaving his intellectual curiosity in the classroom, the average fan is content to cheer mildly while in total ignorance about what his team is trying to do on the field below. In the interests of maintaining the University's academic standards, therefore, the following illustrated lecture on football formations is offered...
...curiosity turned to opportunity as Birdseye went into the wholesale fish business. Up to then fish shippers had been turning out a slow-frozen, cold-storage product that looked like fish and often tasted like mush. In vesting $7 in buckets of brine, blocks of ice and an electric fan, Birdseye started to quick-freeze fish. Birdseye's process turned out well; his finances, however, were not equal to the strain of setting up a large manufacturing and distributing organization, and he went broke. Unfazed. he hocked his life insurance and gambled again. This time...
...first thing I did on hearing of your withdrawal from The Iron Petticoat was to seek out my other fan, Dr. Shurr...
...Republican lady who asked questions about Adlai Stevenson's divorce ("I think that any personal life of a candidate should not be a proper political issue"). He sidestepped the political credits and debits of the World Series ("I lean to the Dodgers, but my wife is a Yankee fan"). He pointedly omitted to invite Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy to the speakers' stand at Milwaukee's Marquette University, not even mentioning his name. Along Nixon's way in Milwaukee a placard proclaimed: LOCK...
Died. Yvonne Faith ("Cutest Little Nudist") Bacon, fiftyish, platinum blonde onetime hip-switcher (Earl Carroll's Vanities, 1930), who once danced in a costume of leaves which a trained fawn consumed as she wiggled, later claimed she invented the fan dance, sued Sally Rand for $375,000 for stealing the idea; after a jump from a hotel window when she failed to get a strip-joint job; in Chicago...