Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stork in seven or eight weeks. I may go back, but, of course, I might be told to get out. I feel like an outcast." The New York Post, one of Winchell's many mortal enemies, gleefully reported that vindictive Host Billingsley had hauled off the wall a heroic portrait of Pariah Winchell. A couple of days later, however, vacationing Winchell hinted to his devoted readers: "WW's photo is back on the Stork Club foyer wall. (Tha-anks a large Lump!)." At week's end Billingsley seemed mystified by the large Lump: "It's clear...
...Charles Trenet and Jacqueline François, sets up an elaborate schedule of regattas, racing events and polo matches. To promote elegance, André refuses to allow even the biggest losers inside the Casino's Gilded Hall unless they are wearing evening clothes (black tie), once turned away heroic General Pierre Koenig. Explained an attendant: "Sorry, General, but orders are orders." Said sport-shirted Koenig: "Ah, yes. I understand orders...
...head of his family upon the death of his stepfather, a mediocre mezzotint artist and dancing teacher who had barely introduced the boy to art. To help support his mother and half brother, Copley had to translate this bowing acquaintance into professional skill. His response to the challenge was heroic...
...Jesuit Gimmick. Heroine of the play is a guardian angel just released from the heroic job of keeping a movie queen out of hell. "Love was a game," she sings of her former charge. "Men were so tame/ Like Nashua she ran every race./Though in her prime She lost every time./ But she died in the state of grace...
Cutter's Comeback. When the bill came up for debate, General Joe's estimate of the situation was about right. Nonetheless, armed with the new weapon of Ike's promise to run, he was able to inspire some remarkably heroic performances. New York's legendary Republican budget-slasher, John Taber, threw off a lifetime habit to ask that the House raise its sights on foreign aid. This year, foghorned Taber, the cuts have gone too deep: Ike should get at least $4 billion. He was seconded by Massachusetts' Dick Wigglesworth, the Republicans...