Word: flamingoes
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...tattered stranger appeared at the sophomores' door, claiming that he was "a poor merchant seaman off the S.S. Flamingo" who had gotten drunk on pay day and had been robbed of all he had in the world. His spiel ended with an appeal to the open-mouthed listeners to have a warm spot in their hearts for "a poor Irishman who had a wee bit too much to drink...
This was evidently the right tack Craven, who boasts "a wee bit of Irish blood," forked over three dollars, and Ensign followed up with two. The stranger promised to return the money on the 21st, when he would rejoin the Flamingo in Brooklyn...
With that information, any good guesser who had read a couple of Robert Wilder's previous bestsellers (Flamingo Road, Written on the Wind, Bright Feather) might almost twig to the whole story...
...Truman's Secretary of Commerce drove down from Palm Beach, Fla. last week to Miami. Carefully combed, immaculate in a brown tropical suit and two-tone shoes, and so characteristically erect that he seemed to be leaning slightly backwards, white-haired Charles Sawyer walked into the Flamingo Hotel to dine with 42 officials of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and their wives...
While most of the words that Colby discusses are suggested by his readers, Colby turned the tables in 1942 by asking them: What are the most euphonious English words? The top ten by popular vote: mother, memory, Cellophane, bellboy, melancholy, belladonna, flamingo, wilderness, tambourine, lavender. Last week Logophile Colby reported the results of a new readers' poll. Mother had slipped a bit, but was still listed among the top ten. There were eight new favorites. The 1950 hit parade: melody, lullaby, mimosa, memory, mellow, mother, moonbeam, murmuring, beautiful, lanolin...