Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pointing to five dilapidated chairs lined up on the stage. According to MacKinnon four of these chairs were occupied by Demosthenes. Milton, Beethoven, and Franklin Roosevelt--the fifth could be ours if we would give in and take the $96 course. Then he introduced thirteen recent Dale Carnagie Graduates, fit company for the great men of history. Each grad delivered a two minute speech on what the course had done...
Peculiar and Wonderful. Two explanations of McCarthy's showing (given by extreme partisans) were: 1) Wisconsin voters are just peculiar, 2) Joe is wonderful. Neither explanation seems to fit the facts of the Wisconsin primary...
Tonic & Lotion. Breakfast done, the three fugitives took baths and shaved, helping themselves to Hill's hair tonic and shaving lotion. Then they helped themselves to Hill's suits. When Joseph discovered that six-footer Hill's suits didn't fit, he sat down at an old treadle sewing machine and carefully altered the trousers and sleeves. The thread broke repeatedly, and Mrs. Hill kept rethreading the needle...
Stunning as the facts were, to the French Half-Wets they were infinitely more potable than the drastic solution proposed by the British and Scandinavians: total abstinence. Tanned, fit Jean Borotra, onetime (1927 through 1932) tennis champion of France, told the congress that a glass of vin ordinaire with meals is just what the doctor should order. "You can't change people's habits," Borotra concluded. "We can't ask [the French] to give up the wine they love so much...
...intention was to write a story that would tell his sons, now aged eight and six, about their forebears and the Salinas Valley in California where they settled. But on the way, fiction ran riot and took over from fact so brazenly that much of the story is hardly fit reading for moppets...