Word: flings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What did Mr. Truman have in mind? asked Kohen, who once sold Philatelist Franklin Roosevelt choice items for his stamp collection. Harry Truman answered as many another husband might in a rare fling at picture buying; he had no very strong views about painters or styles. What he did know was that he wanted something about two feet high and three feet wide. Said the President: "I know exactly the place where I want to hang...
...million-acre ranches. Son Jordan is married to a Mexican girl, aims to become a doctor and work among the poor. In short, says Author Ferber, there's hope for Texas yet, once this generation's crop of oil, cotton and cattle millionaires have had their vulgar fling...
...mating season now, said Henry S. Dybas, assistant curator at Chicago's Natural History Museum. The crickets are enjoying a "middleaged fling." Chlordane sprayed on floors, foundations and walls every seven days until the first frost might bring them under control. But until colder weather, many Chicagoans will continue to share their homes with crickets. And, in lieu of their preferred diet of grass and grain, the crickets will continue to chew on the lace curtains and starched clothing of their helpless hosts...
Childhood & Education: A king at three, Feisal had a brief fling at toys and tanks, lollipops, Flash Gordon movie serials and Superman comics before growing into a solemn-faced, rather lonely youngster, stuffed full of English, Turkish, Arabic, Kurdish, French and dynastic history. At 14, donned his father's old school tie and went off to Harrow (Winston Churchill's school). Got along with teachers & classmates, showed no signs of the anti-British feelings his father developed there after three Harrowing years...
...four more years before Harrell's concert career started with a tour of Europe. Soon after that, he took a fling at the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air ("I wasn't much interested in opera, but I thought it would be fun"), was more surprised than anybody else when he won. Since a contract with the company was part of the prize, "that sort of threw me into opera." He gradually worked into leading roles: Papageno in the Magic Flute, Golaud in Pelléas and Mélisande...