Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there any more. Evidence: fewer than 15% of the nation's joiners, whether Odd Fellows. Shriners, Eagles or Woodmen, bother to show up for lodge meetings, except on rare special occasions, e.g., a New Year's Eve party. Explains a once-earnest, now-backsliding Chicago businessman-joiner (Masons, Maccabees, Woodmen of the World): "I know I should attend. But all of a sudden, on a lodge night, I realize I haven't been home with the family for three nights running. Then there'll be a damn good prizefight on TV. You know what loses...
...answering them, with the help of two weekly guests ranging from a British ambassador to Gypsy Rose Lee. Moderator Bergen Evans and Panelist John Mason Brown have fought a running duel over such issues as dangling prepositions, split infinitives, and smokes that "taste good like a cigarette should...
...after the association's president. New Hampshire's Attorney General Louis Wyman (whose anti-subversive activities had just been rebuked by the Supreme Court in the case of sometime University of New Hampshire Lecturer Paul Sweezy), had given the Supreme Court a scorching rarely heard north of Mason and Dixon. The Supreme Court, cried Wyman, had "set the U.S. back 25 years in its attempt to make certain that those loyal to a foreign power cannot create another Trojan horse here." The U.S. Constitution, said Wyman, had been "tortured out of all rational historical proportion" in recent Supreme...
...showing any interracial kisses. A dusky lovely (seductively portrayed by Dorothy Dandridge) easily captures the governor's panting aide-de-camp. Another temptress (Joan Collins), led for a while to believe she has Negro blood, drags the governor's son into sudden paternity. Her half brother (James Mason), who really does have Negro blood, imagines that he is also a cuckold, and so murders his supposed rival in a fit of pique. The movie's single solid acting job is by John Williams as a shrewd constabulary chief. The movie gets no distance at all in solving...
...Clemens Herschel Prize for meritorious work in practical hydraulics went to Robert H. Stewart 1G, with second prize going to Robert J. Smith. Austin B. Mason won the Stanley George Elliott Prize for meritorious work in soil mechanics...