Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gamut. The U.S. has largely forgotten (as Hearst apparently did in his latter days) that a half century ago, he was regarded by some as a Socialist radical, and by many as a friend of the people. He muckraked the trusts, exposed Standard Oil for bribing Senators, campaigned for the eight-hour day (which Hearst properties ignored), woman suffrage, public ownership-and, of course, for circulation. In 1901 he was hanged in effigy as an inciter of McKinley's assassination, but a year later he was elected to a seat (rarely to be occupied) in Congress, having...
...more than a dozen clashing political parties, at least two of which (the Stalinist White Flag Communists, the Trotskyite Red Flag Communists) are still in armed rebellion against the government. Besides, thousands of Karen tribesmen are waging guerrilla war against government forces. Legal opposition parties run the gamut from the frankly pro-Russian Workers & Peasants Party to the pro-British Burma Union Party, which advocates a return to the Commonwealth. Somewhere between stands Premier Thakin* Nu's Anti-Fascist People's Friendship League, a vaguely socialist group whose declared aim is "stability...
...years since his mother switched him from piano to flute ("so I would stand out"), Willson has just about run the musical gamut. At 17, he was playing flute and piccolo in Sousa's band; at 21 he was tootling the same instruments in the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Toscanini. He started conducting when a bandleader friend offered to perform his Parade Fantastique, but told him he would have to lead it himself...
Warm Milk. Room One contained four paintings for which the Met had awarded $8,500 in prizes. The awards were all safe as warm milk; granted to men who had won many prizes before, they ran the gamut from watered-down abstractionism to souped-up realism. Basket Bouquet, an impeccable and wholly uninspiring arrangement of lilac smudges by Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths, took first prize. It looked rather like a flat but tasteful Victorian sampler, translated into the smeary medium of oils. California's Rico Lebrun came in second with Centurion's Horse, a chalky, Picassoid...
...gurgles which seasonably propel new fashion twists across the nation. And milliners were joyfully proving that a whole new set of hats would be necessary. A really modish woman was expected to carry extra chignons with her (cost: $7.50 to $150 each) and to be ready to run the gamut, from Gibson Girl curls to Marie Antoinette birdcage, in one working...