Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Black Book. The Teamster assault on the bill began with a grand gesture: invitations to all 435 House members to come, two dozen at a time, for breakfast at the Congressional Hotel. The host: Harold Gibbons, hard-boiled Hoffa deputy from St. Louis, who made his breakfasts politically tasty by flying in union leaders from the home regions of each day's new group of House guests. No fewer than 245 Congressmen heard Host Gibbons introduce Persuader Zagri as his own "community relations" expert from St. Louis. "We are not against legislation," said Zagri smoothly, "but this bill...
...follow in the footsteps of Hitler, who is now decaying in the earth. I say to Adenauer: 'If you try to attack the Socialist countries, you won't be able to leave your own hole in the ground.' " Then up spoke Wladyslaw Gomulka, the perfect host: "Adenauer strives to win France for his policies. Our new friend President de Gaulle may be compared to a dog who barks loudly, but is nevertheless only a toothless...
...characteristics of the modern theatre are its isolationist status on Broadway and its highly commercial outlook which makes for little artistry and attracts to production staffs a host of "ignoramuses and vulgarians," interested only in popular entertainment and high profits...
...Host: Oh, I'm not really a brain surgeon . . . Would you hand me that scalpel, please...
Threatening Sanity. Short of Bruce's extremes are a host of other comedians displaying varying degrees of sickness or satire. Among them: ¶ Tom Lehrer, 31, onetime Harvard mathematics instructor and still the college boy's delight. Lehrer is that rare amateur who turned professional and who did so successfully; in his last engagement he threatened the sanity of S.R.O. crowds at London's Royal Festival Hall. Sample Lehrer lyric...