Word: fisherisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time Humphrey J. Fisher '55, Secretary of the Liberal Union, said that there were "possibilities of arranging a meeting over Christmas vacation between Senators Wayne Morse, Herbert Lehman, Hubert Humphrey and Huang to consider his problem...
...fully expected to see a contingent of Astors and Vanderbilts (nobody had told her that opening night at the Met is, more and more, a circus, less and less a real social event). But the young man saw quite a few celebrities: an ex-Miss America, Margaret Truman, Eddie Fisher and his Debbie, and that blonde sagging under her jewelry-that was Hope Hampton...
...time!" She dashed in and I followed, but a policeman turned me away and I had to climb in a window. I ran around to the front door and asked the cop if I could go out, but he wouldn't let me until I said I was Eddie Fisher trying to get some fresh air. I went back in, and spied Debbie cavorting on the stage with some hula girls. From time to time she would draw her skirt up to a chalk mark four inches above her knee, cry "Mercy!" as the flashbulbs popped, and hurriedly drop...
...script puts Father Brown (Alec Guinness) up to his usual trick of bringing a criminal not to the judicial bar but to the communion rail. His prospective proselyte : a famous international crook called Flambeau (Peter Finch). The cunning old fisher of men lets the devil bait the hook-with a pretty widow (Joan Greenwood). Widows, as somebody in the picture remarks, are irresistible because "if you are better than the first [husband], they are grateful, and if you are worse, they are not surprised...
...players, Hank Holmes and Marv Weiss, out of the game. Left wing Holmes received a cut above the eye in the Princeton game which required five stitches to close. Regular left inside Weiss sprained his ankle Monday in practice. If they are unable to play, Godfrey Truslow and Dick Fisher, who scored twice against the Tigers, will fill...