Word: kippered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kipper of the Flame. In North Haven, Conn., after dozing off while cooking a snack, Herbert Herring was smoked out of his house...
...have the lot," he announces grimly one day, and, like Sorel, he sets his cap for the daughter (Heather Sears) of one of the richest men in town. "You know, Susan," he tells her, "you're beautiful," and sighs with carefully rehearsed despair that she is "a dear kipper" -too dear for the working-class likes of him. But when he begins to mumble modestly about his sufferings as a P.W. in Germany, the young lady's upper-crusty young swain (John Westbrook) considers it high time to pull rank. A flick of his Better-Schooled tongue...
...many a British businessman, expansion holds about as much allure as an undercooked kipper. But red-mustached, 66-year-old Frank Perkins thrives on it. In the depths of the Depression, when most British businessmen dreaded any venture beyond the lawns of their country estates, Perkins boldly marched out to sell the British trucking industry on the diesel engine. He made his sale, expanded and became England's biggest producer of automotive diesels...
...Clipped Kippers. British Kipper Exporters, Ltd. put on sale in the U.S. the world's first fresh-frozen boneless kippers (smoked herring fillets). Called Edinburgers, they are precooked and formed into slabs. Price...
...baseball umpires, corset salesmen, jet pilots and bagel bakers dominate the screen. British panelists are more likely to be guessing at such occupations as winkle-washer, teapot-handler, kipper-packer, gentleman's gentleman, or sagger-maker's bottom knocker (a pottery worker). A strictly British question which suddenly narrows down the field: Are you nationalized...