Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulcinea Smith is a witless, bromidic, meddlesome but well-meaning woman with a mania for engineering other people's lives. She gives a weekend house-party, and manages to have a finger in every pie and a foot in every mouth. She tries to fix her husband's business deals and do a little matchmaking on the side. She spouts cliches and misquotations with amazing volubility. It is she who arranges a bridge game before supper because "it would be sort of soothing," and then proceeds to ask whether hearts are higher than spades and whether she "should discard from...
Massachusetts Democrat Jack Kennedy, Senate sponsor (with New York's Republican Irving Ives) snapped back that Mitchell, for all of his ringing statements, had "never lifted a finger" to help get Republican support for the bill. On the other hand, said Kennedy, the National Association of Manufacturers, after discovering features objectionable to management in the bill, had flooded the House with "intemperate, exaggerated and misleading attacks." Speaker Rayburn chimed in to explain that he sat on the bill 41 days in hope of rounding up votes enough to suspend House rules and bypass Barden's committee. That gambit...
Robert Lowell, the second-generation Fugitive, added some humor to the meeting with his "Falling Asleep over the Aeneid," read after a brief exchange with Tate. "When 'Cal' first appeared in Tennessee," Tate reminisced of Lowell, "he thought a mule was a donkey." Lowell pointed his finger at him and charged, "When I first appeared in Tennessee, you thought Emerson was a mule." When the applause and laughter at this remark had died down, Tate looked up quietly and said, "I still...
...says NBC's Don Durgin, vice president in charge of sales. "We fully expect to be sold out when the fall season begins." Insists ABC Vice President Don Coyle: "By October, there's no doubt that we'll be all locked up." Then he makes a finger-crossing addition: "Of course, you're never locked up until you're locked...
Mothers of River City! Watch for the telltale signs of corruption. The moment your son leaves the house does he re-buckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime novel hidden in the corn crib? Is he memorizing jokes out of Capt. Billy's "Whiz Bang"? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like "swell" and "so's your old man"? If so, my friends-ya got Trouble...