Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look. The Republican Detroit Free Press, for example, put its final edition to bed at 3:30 a.m. At breakfast its readers heard on their radios that Truman was winning -and on Malcolm W. Bingay's editorial page, they read about the "Lame Duck President ... a game little fellow . . . who went down fighting with all he had . . ." Flanking the editorial were Drew Pearson, Walter Lippmann and Marquis Childs, all out on the same limb. Chicago's Journal of Commerce, in its "final" edition, referred to "President-elect" Dewey and was full of such heads as "New Regime Must...
...wise old man in the vaudeville arts, Billy Rose has worked out quite an act for himself: he is the gullible little guy just trying to learn the ropes, and always being outsmarted. With all the self-depreciation, Billy lets it be known that he is a pretty clever fellow. From Socrates to Will Rogers it has been a good routine when done right, and Billy makes a fairly successful stab...
...Yonkel the Jink ("A jink is a fellow who used to be a jinx and graduated"), the "hardest luck guy on the East Side." Dozens of people, reports Billy, "make a living by checking his selections and betting the opposite . . . When he discusses past achievements it's always 'The day I beat Army' or 'The night I knock out Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella...
...antisocial man is irresponsible and ill-bred," snaps Author Fenwick, i.e., at funerals he grins cheerily at his fellow mourners; at weddings he actually shows "unrestrained gaiety." He cannot stand in a queue without "sneaking up to a higher place," or walk out of his apartment house without dropping his butts in the hallway (instead of in the Lowestoft). All the same, he strikes the reader as a more attractive man than he will be after he has let Vogue lighten his darkness...
Student division--Francis X. Sutton, Junior Prize Fellow in Social Relations; Robert Solow 2G, Jacob C. Levenson, Teaching Fellow; Richard Webster '51, treasurer of the Seminar; William D. Weeks '49, president of the Student Council, and one other member from the Council, as yet undesignated...