Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME's article "Battle of the Socialites" [March 9] states that the term Grundyism was inspired by Pennsylvania's stiff-collared conservative and onetime G.O.P. State Chairman Joe Grundy. I believe, however, that the term was originally inspired by the prudish and narrowminded Mrs. Grundy, a person referred to in Thomas Morton's comedy Speed the Plough...
...What will Mrs. Grundy say?" worried Dame Ashby throughout Morton's play. For years Mrs. Grundy and grundyism were synonymous with conventional behavior. But when Joe Grundy of Pennsylvania became influential in U.S. politics, the word took on the new meaning of "high button shoe political conservatism...
...side of the stage and seven men planted downstage. Some of the time these minstrels wander about, some of the time they huddle around a table like displaced poker players. The cast and chorus nimbly change settings, rotating panels and moving other airily designed scenic props. The dances bear Joe Layton's inventive signature, but excessive leg, arm, and hand signals threaten to turn the chorus into a platoon of animated traffic cops. As director, Layton has used all these devices to generate motion, at best the poor relation of action...
...house of detention." The original charge was breaking and entering, but Liston soon graduated to grander crime, served two years in the state prison at Jefferson City, Mo., for a series of restaurant robberies. There Liston met a chaplain who interested him in boxing. He memorized helpful hints from Joe Louis' My Life Story (sample: "Never jab at your target; always try to jab through it"), soon was prison champion, emerged to win the intercity Golden Gloves heavyweight championship...
...character. Roy Rogers was Leonard Slye. Boris Karloff could not have frightened a soul as William Henry Pratt. Gypsy Rose Lee has done things that Rose Louise Hovick would presumably never do. Other real names seem to be struggling to express themselves. Merry Mickey Rooney was once Joe Yule Jr. Sam Goldwyn was Sam Goldfish. Shelley Winters was Shirley Schrift. Lili St. Cyr was Marie van Shaack. Diana Dors was Diana Fluck...