Word: highfalutin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berliner's password is "Mir kann keener"-"Nobody can put anything over on me"-and his instinctive reaction to totalitarianism, as it is to anything highfalutin, is a deflating wisecrack. The airlift memorial at which last week's anniversary ceremonies began is universally known to Berliners as "the Hunger Claw"; a modernistic postwar church that looks as though a train might pull into it at any moment is called "Jesus Station." When Berliners use the high-flown expressions coined to describe their city's cold-war role-"the beacon of freedom" or "the show window of democracy...
Somewhere between high fashion and highfalutin' lies a heap of high-priced clothing turned out over the years for a peculiarly critical, not necessarily tasteful eye: the movie camera's. Hollywood rarely originates style, rarely fails to exaggerate what is popular at the moment. If low necklines are in vogue, movie designers drop them a little lower; if padded shoulders are in this year, every Hollywood dress slightly resembles a football uniform. The result is that Hollywood's powdered, pinched, pushed, pneumatized darlings flash across the screen looking just a little bit more like what every American...
...where the sound of running water drew him to the bathroom door. He pushed the door open and called out to the august figure sitting in the bathtub: "How about United Nations?" There was a gurgle of satisfaction from Prime Minister Churchill, who had been holding out against any highfalutin notions of world government. The P.M. rinsed the soap from his eyes, shook his head like a wet hippopotamus. Said Churchill: "That should...
Chairman-elect Chamberlain was a 24-year-old dress designer in London when she heard her call to the church ("At first it seemed a bit highfalutin. But I just couldn't do anything other than be a minister"). She took a B.D. at King's College, London University, in 1946 was appointed first woman chaplain to the armed forces. The next year she married a Church of England priest, the Rev. John Carrington. For a while she was pastor of the Vineyard Congregational Church in Richmond, Surrey, about four miles from Hampton, where her husband is vicar...
...Maryland neighbors oohed and aahed over his good fortune, Sir Adrian sold his tools and made ready to claim his inheritance. "I have no highfalutin ideas about getting into society," the new baronet told reporters who met him in Southampton last month. "I am poor as Job's cat, and I'm satisfied to go on living that way . . . but this is an honor-kinda historic...