Word: killjoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blow Hot. In an industry noted for its highflying, Buck Rogerish schemers, and its sometimes low-grade economics, Pat Patterson, at 47, is an old killjoy. He is forever crying "Now, wait a minute," when someone wants to jump off the barn with an umbrella for a parachute. He is the No. 1 conservative of the airlines, and proud of the title. He still gets a thrill as an airliner roars up off the runway. But the thrill is enhanced if he knows that all the seats are filled...
...Killinger's letter [TIME, Oct. 28] you might say, "Killjoy was here." Mr. Killinger's sentiments typify the present murky melancholy which seems to be affecting so many Americans...
...name no killjoy for Man of the Year. I nominate Kilroy the Man who "was here...
...ditties instead of trying to dazzle the customers with languorous Latin rhythms. But out of a pleasantly unexciting score emerges one fetching, early-Porterish tune, I Love You. The dancing, too, is Main Stem rather than Mexican-fast routines and catchy specialties. The sets are vivid, the costumes showy. Killjoy on the hayride is the book, which for a while is a worse threat than...
What annoys him most appears to be what he calls my "almost moronic cheerfulness." This seems to me a classic phrase and I will do what I can to immortalize it. All my long writing life I have been called a killjoy, a sorehead, a Jeremiah, a muckraker, a common scold, a public nuisance-all the names you could think of; and now, having achieved serenity in my 60's, I am "almost moronic." Let me point out to your reviewer that the case is not entirely unique. Emerson managed to keep cheerful through the tragedy of the Civil...