Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Singing her songs of loves that are dead or dying, she seems at times on the verge of tears, suddenly switches to a hardly repressed gust of defiant laughter. What the words do not say she suggests with a sway of her body, a flutter of her fan, a twirl of her floor-brushing skirts. Her biggest hit: Pena Penita (Little Sorrow...
Lexington is the hub from which a series of "pikes" fan out to the horse farms...
Slowly, ever so slowly, this game called football is changing. The Atlantic Refining Company, sponsor of the nation-wide broadcasts of Ivy League contests, has decided to switch to the steadier professional game. The old fan now sits in his living room choosing his afternoon entertainment from a channeled selection. If he misses the late fall feeling of dump concrete, cold hot dogs and warm brandy, if he misses the "Peanuts," the "Get your colors," of a bright autumn day, he isn't talking...
...from these dim millions that the columnist gets his response. There's fan mail, of course, but the public is not in a position to know. It's at the Metropolitan Club, from the retired administrator stepping out of a cab, or the head of a Government agency pulling off his coat in the lobby, or the Senator on his way up in the elevator to the bar, that he learns whether his words have hit a mark. A Washington column is the record of conversations among very important persons...
...Manhattan, Critic George Jean Nathan, 70, an amateur baseball fan, told the New York Times that there were some things still beneath his notice: "I take no interest in politics . . . It is the diversion of trivial men, and when they succeed at it, they become important in the eyes of more trivial...