Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Alderman: I did. Even Webster doesn't know what it means...
...little more. Everyone knows that there are at least 45 reliable bootleggers among Topeka's 76,000 population; that every bellhop has a ready pint or quart; that mixed drinks are served at the Rainbo, the Northern Star, the It'll Do Club; that to get a fifth of Old Granddad (unavailable in Kansas City) at Meadow Acres Ballroom, all you have to do is beckon the "Soup Man" and fork over...
...steal or ignore soap & water. Now & then he must work a while. His peers elected Bo Sigurd ("Skeets") Simmons, 56, of Detroit, who hitchhiked from New York in seven days, spent $10 for food en route. Ben ("The Coast Kid") Benson, twotime king of the jungles, ran a poor fifth. There were strong hints that Ben was a "greaseball" and never took a bath. Said one hobo: "He's just...
Famed St. Patrick's Cathedral, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, was getting its face lifted. Last week, at just about the halfway mark in an ambitious repair job, tubular-steel cobwebs festooned the neo-Gothic church. St. Patrick's had cost only $1,500,000 by the time it was dedicated in 1879; the patching had already taken $1,000,000, would take another year and another million dollars...
Like Evan Evans, Hill believes in object lessons. Once, the story goes, he commanded a new agency man to follow him from his office, drove wordlessly up Fifth Avenue to Tiffany's, demanded that a clerk show him a $150,000 necklace. Hill picked it up, shook it in the face of the astounded adman and boomed: "That's what I mean. Give me finished copy-not rough layouts!" Then he handed the necklace back to the clerk, walked out. Presumably on account of such didoes, Young & Rubicam resigned the Pall Mall account ($400,000 billings...