Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good reason. Ike may like Len; Len may like Len; but Len isn't really sure whether anyone else does. This basic insecurity is, of course, highly unbecoming for a man of Mr. Hall's stature. After all, he is a former sheriff of Nassau County...
...three news-service lensmen. who hung on his lapel a button inscribed "S.O.D." Its meaning: "Sons of Dunghill," commemorating the January occasion when "Engine" Charlie, fresh from another White House palaver over his remarks about the National Guard (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), declined to comment on the meeting, blurting: "This isn't my dunghill!" Quip-per Wilson finally explained last week exactly what he had meant, thus increased his renown for honesty, if not discretion. Said Charlie Wilson: "I meant that this particular place is not the place where I can talk best. I was not referring to the White...
...chase on Gunsmoke. We made a list of things that annoyed us in the regular Westerns. For instance, the devotion of the cowboy to his horse. That's a lot of nonsense. The two things a cowboy loves best are his saddle and his hat. And cowboy speech isn't full of things like 'shucks' and 'side-winding varmint.' What's more, the frontier marshals made mistakes sometimes, and they weren't always pure. The other week's show is a typical example. Matt Dillon [the hero] kills four guys...
When the infant's head emerges, the fully conscious mother demands to know whether she has a boy or a girl. "I can't tell," the doctor replies. "That part isn't out yet." Moments later, the shrill wail of young David Usill rises above the murmur of the bedside sounds. "Oh, doctor," breathes the mother, "that's beautiful...
Miss Sarton means only to write about a Fur Person who is, the blurb tells us, her own cat. It is, then, a charming book that cares for the prodigious cat dignity it describes so well. But it isn't a children's book, first because the words are too big, and also because the intricate varieties of cat thought and the comments on the human variety of life seem meant for adult ears. Though these might bore children, The Fur Person is an uncommonly charming book for grown...