Word: itches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman's rebuff was possibly the Democrats' gain-Hennings looked like a better campaigner than Allison against the Republicans' Senator Forrest Donnell, an earnest, hair-splitting legalist in the Senate (where he is known as "The Big Itch"), but a cracker-barrel, Bible-quoting spellbinder along Missouri's back roads...
...also free false teeth, wigs, spectacles, glass eyes, wooden legs and hearing aids. Last week it announced that it would draw the line at bath salts, vanishing cream, shaving soap, toothpaste, hair tonic and anti-mosquito lotions. However, a spokesman admitted, there are borderline cases: "A man with an itch, it might be argued, needs medicated soap...
...Money Itch. William Jaird Levitt never planned to be a builder; he just drifted into it. Born in Brooklyn in 1907, he grew up in an argumentative family, and in that atmosphere his self-confidence waxed mightily. His father, Abraham, was a lawyer who used to spend summer nights lecturing to Bill and his younger brother Alfred on everything from art to the Dodgers. Bill, the family extravert, liked the baseball lectures; Alfred, shy and retiring, preferred those...
...recent novels the clergyman with the troubled conscience appears almost as often as the young advertising man with an itch to compose literature. Anglican Chaplain Choyce in Leslie Greener's No Time to Look Back (see Recent & Readable) is such a man. So are some of the central figures in recent works of such Roman Catholic writers as J. F. Powers (Prince of Darkness) and Harry Sylvester (All Your Idols), who portray this kind of priest so movingly that their work is a rebuke to a popular bestseller theory, i.e., that the life of renunciation is jolly...
Missouri's plodding, painstaking Donnell, sometimes known as the "Big Itch," read some of the language of the bill: "It involves confidence on the part of investors . . . that they will not be deprived of their property without prompt, adequate and effective compensation...