Word: goin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extremely strong to justify exclusion. The editors might use a common standard: whether the risk involved is worth the possible value of such a person to the Review. If we knew that Lubell was not directed to infiltrate the Review for subversive purposes; if we knew he was not goin to use the experience he gains to harm the legal profession; we would then be the first to urge he not be isolated from influence merely because of his political views. But we cannot believe this, for he will not deny it under oath. Because of this, the risk...
...goin' down hill at 90 miles an hour...
...Lillian ("Madame Queen") Randolph and Elinor ("Ruby") Harriet, and recalled some favorite milestones from their script life: Madame Queen's breach of promise suit against Andy (". . . We was engaged 147 times in one year . . . an' it woulda been more dan dat if we'd been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger, but ain't you got ahold of my watch chain?" Kingfish: "Your watch chain? Well, so I does. How you like dat! One of dese solid gold cuff links...
...lanky farm boy in Charlotte, N.C., who played first base for the local semi-pro team and dreamed of the big leagues. One night, during the invitation at a revival, Billy nudged a school chum in the ribs and stage-whispered: "Pal, I'm goin'." Billy went all the way: he began to study for the ministry. He went to the St. Petersburg Bible Institute in Florida, then Illinois' Wheaton College (where he met his wife), then accepted a pastorate in Western Springs, Ill. But a pastor's life seemed an unexciting routine of baptisms, marriages...
...teeth in his head, too-all except one. That'd been knocked out with a brick in a fight." Toward the end, he came to look at a newborn great-grandchild, "a puny boy weighing seven pounds." "Goddam it," he said, "the next generation of Fishers is goin' to be squirrels." His son, Thurber's grandfather, was hardly that. He showed his independence by having all his teeth capped with gold and, in his 60s, swallowing beach sand to "assist the integrity of the intestinal track...