Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reaper. In Uvalde, Texas, the Leader-News cheered M. Watson Frazar's election as president of the Chamber of Commerce, pointed out that "evidence of Frazar's faith in the future of Uvalde is his new funeral home...
...backslapping hard sell. He fixed his selling price at $2 to $5 an acre. What if the land is remote (and no more fertile than tracts being peddled by Mato Grosso State for 35? an acre)? One day the wilderness would bloom. Said Realtor Cage, nobly: "I'm going to work hard and pay back everybody that lost anything in Texas. You betcha, and the first people I'm going to pay back are those little old widows-yessiree, I'm going to call them right up to the head of the line." Cage's wife...
...blondined second wife took a terraced apartment overlooking Copacabana Beach, bought a cabin cruiser, joined the Fluminense Club and the Yacht Club (membership fee: $2,000). Through a front man. Belle got control of two small firms that made abrasives, formed a holding company called Internacional de Màquinas e Abrasivos. He stepped off with appropriate fanfare: a caviar and steak luncheon and a trip to the humming factories in chauffeured Cadillacs for Rio's leading businessmen. Belle envisioned expansion into a sprawling complex of steel, paper and machine-tool plants...
...appearance under the sponsorship of the scholarly Reinhold Niebuhr earned Tillich considerable attention both in and out of the classroom-even though his formidable German accent and even more formidable concepts left hearers with an impression which U.S. Theologian Walter M. Horton has described as "respectful mystification." (It was hours after first listening to Tillich, recalls Horton, "that I realized that the word 'waykwoom,' many times repeated, and the key to the whole lecture, was meant to represent the English word 'vacuum.' ") But gradually, Tillich learned to communicate with America's would-be believers. Gradually...
...performer, he will go on collecting $1,200,000 yearly from NBC. Said languid Perry: "Frankly, I don't know a thing about the deal. But I've met the president of Kraft [J. C. Loftis], and he seemed a helluva nice guy. Also, I'm quite a cheeseman myself...