Word: layman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Thursday a crowd of over 16,000 turned out to hear "A Living History of Jazz," with John McLellan as narrator and the Herb Pomeroy jazz band as illustrator. McLellan's commentary had plenty of meat but was not too technical for the layman. He gave a splendid survey of the origin of jazz, its evolution into a craft and finally an art-form...
...married attractive, capable Olive Freeman Palmer. A thunderous, fire-snorting orator, during the campaign he spoke with evangelistic fervor even when there were no more than a dozen people listening. Major interests: work, an occasional fishing trip alone, and the Baptist Church, in which he is a leading layman...
...earlier supported the Caudillo. Among them were some big names: Millionaire Basque Businessman Antonio Menchaca Careaga, Lawyer Valentin López Aparicio, University Student Ignacio Soleto, nephew of Liberal Leader Dionisio Ridruejo (Franco's propaganda director during the civil war), and Francisco Herrera Oria, widely known liberal Catholic layman and younger brother of the liberal Bishop of Málaga...
...layman, suggest that both smoking and cancer are the outcome of worry in the same way that ulcers and mental upsets...
Unfortunately for the layman, this is one of the few times in the book that Hiss expresses any of his inner thoughts. For the most part, In the Court of Public Opinion is another legal defense of Alger Hiss, witness and then defendent. It is as disappointing to those liberals who expected Hiss to write passionately about his generation of "bright young men," as it is to those who believed that Hiss would finally break down and admit that Whittaker Chambers was telling the truth after all. Hiss never swerves from his past testimony, denying all of Chambers' assertions, including...