Word: filbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quisby or a mullethead, that won't be your cue to poke his snoot or even yell for the cops. Instead . . . you should square off and announce with dignity and eloquence that your antagonist is, forsooth, a beanhead, a booby, a chump, a dingbat, a flumadiddy, a filbert, a peanutbrain, a rednecked slob, a rumdum, a stupe, a tinpot...
...largest evening paper in the U.S. will be 100 years old this week. In Philadelphia, where "nearly everybody reads the Bulletin" the decorous "Old Lady of Filbert Street" was all set to celebrate. For her birthday party she took over Convention Hall so that her family of 1,700 could eat-but not drink-and make merry. Leathery Robert McLean, president of the Bulletin and of the A.P., would make a little speech. And rays from the star Algol, which take 100 light years to reach Philadelphia, would trip the switch that lighted the six-foot birthday cake...
Died. William James Filbert, 78, legendary senior director of U.S. Steel; in Manhattan. The bald, keen-eyed master statistician, known as the world's richest clerk, succeeded Myron C. Taylor as chairman of Steel's finance committee (1934), was succeeded by Edward Riley Stettinius...