Word: lollipop
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...short speech after the audience had been quieted he told of how the orchestra had learned "sweet, soothing, and soporific" pieces for just such an eventuality. He said the orchestra called them lollipops. They played Lollipop No. 2, "On First Hearing the Cuckoo in Spring" by Delius. Afterwards, when the audience began noisily cheering Beecham again held up his hand for quiet and announced that "members of the orchestra have raised eyebrows. They have played Lollipop No. 2 and you are still awake." It was not until he shouted above the noise, "I will NOT play another selection," that everyone...
Britain's Reginald Reynolds, a "confirmed serendipitist" (discoverer of unexpected treasures) and the author of a learned, witty study of sewage-disposal problems (Cleanliness and Godliness, TIME, May 6, 1946), is no nostalgic yearner for the boskier days of old. In Beards he stands aloof (and beardless), a lollipop in one cheek and his tongue in the other, and lets the pro-and anti-beard factions fight...
...Date with Judy, starring Jane Powell and Wallace Beery, is an innocent little lollipop of a cinemusical. Rachel, which opened late in the month and netted top grosses for the last two weeks, is a pretty good historical drama whose star, Robert Mitchum, was recently arrested in a marijuana scandal. The critics were lukewarm to Good Sam, but it flourished, regardless. The Babe Ruth Story was thoroughly panned, but it profited from the wide public interest in Ruth's death. Sorry, Wrong Number and Rope, greeted with critics' cheers, rated ninth and eleventh...
Powder Kegs & Lollipops. No worthwhile estimate of the chances of war can be made (as the Frenchman made his) on the basis of an isolated issue, whether it be Hitler's drive for Poland or Stalin's for Berlin. Great nations are not powder kegs exploding into war at the drop of a carelessly tossed diplomatic démarche. Nor are they children, to be pacified by a conciliatory lollipop. Situations ripe for war find the specific issues (sometimes quite trivial ones, like Sarajevo) that start the shooting. Situations not ripe for war ignore specific issues (sometimes very...
...believed him to the hilt-was not aware that this capture had taken place. The U.S. people, most of whom would vote as Republicans or Democrats in November, were not sure, watching Wallace's political sideshow, just what to make of him. Was he a liberal-or a lollipop? Was he Sir Galahad or, as Westbrook Pegler has savagely dubbed him, an old Bubblehead? Was he a true prophet or a sinister Pied Piper...