Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their manner towards dancers. Donahue is almost the only man I know in the business who looks as though he belongs in front of a band and knows what to do there. He's cordial and obliging without being artificial, and provides a much needed and seldom obtained link between the musician and the listener. By all means, catch the band; they're having a Harvard Night Thursday; might not be a bad idea to go then...
...Weak Link (by Allen Wood: produced by Chester Erskin in association with Philip Adler) is a farce-melodrama as lighthearted as Tiny Tim, and as lame. It concerns a young man who can spot the weak link in every crime. Offering his services to a "Bankers' Protective Association" to help prevent robberies, he finds himself among crooks, is forced to help commit them...
...usual thing, a hodgepodge of Cinderella, the Stork Club, Brenda Fraizer, and a trained seal. It contains the usual number of cafe society cracks, some good, some bad. Sample: "Yale is a period of life between changing your voice and selling insurance." Certainly the book is the weak link here, as it is in so many musical comedies these days...
...know his name almost as soon as Sever and Hollis. His smile of welcome at the Union gate is as punctual as President Conant's official address. Unlike such romantic heroes as Copeland and Kittredge who linger just beyond the real life of undergraduates, Max Keezer is an indispensible link with the present. Even if your grandfather remembered him, you cannot think of Keezer as anything but agile and hardly more than middle-aged. But he has known them all from President Eliot to Teddy Roosevelt and Stillman and Morgan. With his polo coat and plaid cap, Max Keezer...
...Manhattan department store, gave four judges-Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president of the National Mother-in-Law Club, carried a sign reading: " 'MOTHER...