Word: lot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this country back to some status of morality as relates to people who have some service to sell, someone should start a movement to stop tipping. And that means tips to cab drivers, waiters, waitresses, barbers and the whole lot who have their greedy hands out to be greased by a tip in payment not for services rendered and to be paid for, but as an inducement for them to refrain from being nasty and rude...
After reading your story, "The Defense Budget," in the Nov. 30 issue, I am convinced that the financial immorality practiced by industry and Congressmen puts to shame the recent so-called TV quiz scandals, and by comparison makes the occasional hanky-panky payola participants a puny and feeble lot...
Librarians are traditionally a stodgy lot. The faculty committee on Libraries, however, deserves commendation for breaking tradition and imposing a three-hour limit on the circulation of Lamont closed research books. Come Reading Period, the glorious era of hidden volumes and missing books may be ended. Desks will no longer provide a sanctuary for reserve volumes; with Bursar's card checks, the invading hordes from neighboring colleges will be eliminated...
Assignments by Lot. That unavoidable but unpopular concomitant of any press tour, the reporter's pool (one man covering for the group), was settled by lot. The lucky pool men would fly in the presidential plane on a rotating basis, one reporter and one cameraman for each leg of the tour, others to follow the President on the ground wherever all 84 could not go. Hagerty considerately arranged for the press plane to get pool copy quickly: by radio from Eisenhower's plane or, in the event of poor radio reception, handed around, freshly mimeographed aloft...
...CIVIL WAR DICTIONARY, by Mark M. Boatner III (974 pp.; Mckay; $15), suggests that arguments about the Civil War may never cease but that a lot of them are going to be settled by this book. Lieut. Colonel Boatner, onetime instructor of military history at West Point, has arranged 4,000 items in alphabetical order, among them 2,000 brief biographies of notable Civil War figures and scores of succinct action accounts from Gettysburg to mere skirmishes...