Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what kind of schools and what kind of people is Harvard attracting. Professor Samuel A. Stouffer, an Admissions Committee member, notes that despite the effort expended toward attracting bright people in large high schools, the small town high school has been neglected. "We don't do very well in Hush-puppy, Georgia," Stouffer comments. The large Eastern preparatory schools continue to supply sizeable delegations, but with more schools represented and fewer from any one. Even Exeter's formidable shipments have eased off some in the past few years. Among all schools, public and private, the average is less than...
...Days). Most of Malice enmeshed Dr. Randolph Kalbfus (Keenan Wynn) an innocent Manhattan psychoanalyst who goes to Hollywood as technical adviser on psychological movies. The doctor (crying, "I'm sorry, Sigmund!") is quickly seduced by Star Audrey Merridew (Julie Newmar), a wine-piney Georgia cracker who lives (on hush-puppies) with her cussing, Grant Wooden mother on Aorta Road. In time, Dr. Kalbfus divorces his wife, traipses around in a beret, becomes convinced that Sophia Loren wants to marry him. He winds up back in Manhattan, being analyzed himself. Mourns his analyst: "It's no good...
...Cabot IV '53-4-1-'63 and Teensie Drabb 3L. "This is the first time I've ever succeeded in anything," said Mr. Cabot, who is now completing his freshman year. They asked that the announcement not be made public yet, as they have not informed their parents. So "hush, hush...
...dyin', Said, "Go to bed, children, and hush...
Pushing Buttons. Shari's surface-simple formula: "Children are so open, it's easy to see what's in their minds. If I push a button, I get a response.'' Shari gets her best responses with four hand puppets-named Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy and Wing Ding-who trade wisecracks with her, play geography and spelling games, croak weekly through 20-odd songs. Shari has a sure hand with animals (at home, in a Manhattan apartment with second husband Jeremy Tarcher, she keeps a collie, an owl monkey, a parrot, and a mink...