Word: messer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obliged to smooth over all social irritations with good manners and a smile. Literary Critic Josephine Hendin, writing about the late Georgia Novelist Flannery O'Connor, speaks of a Southern "politeness that engulfs every other emotion." "No matter how bad an evening has been," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer, a native of New Jersey, "Southern women never fail to say, 'Y'all come back and see us again soon' when they might want to say, 'Drop dead.' " Critic Haskell recalls having to take "sort of the Anita Loos approach" to society...
...adds, "I was a C- student. Smart girls weren't supposed to get boy friends." Says Messer, "Psychiatrists see Southern women because of their rage and resentment at having to bury their feelings. Northern women tend to be treated by psychiatrists more for depression and paranoia. There is much more hysteria in Southern patients." But, Messer notes, change is in the air: fewer Southern women are hiding anger and frustration behind the image of the happy gentlewoman...
...would be stretching a point to say that the Yankees yet have much class. Their convicted-felon owner, George Steinbrenner, told Yankee broadcaster Frank Messer that he wanted Lee suspended from baseball for telling a New Jersey paper that he was looking forward to returning to action and "drilling" Nettles and Mickey Rivers, the two members of the Yankees who almost ended the Space Cowboy's career--a natural feeling on Lee's part, it seems...
...infield grass too much. The fight promoter then told the press that Steinbrenner wore a toupee. So the Yankee owner, concerned by this assault on his image, told the broadcaster on Sunday to pull his hair to "see if it is a purple wig." The Yankee-paid Messer dutifully announced that it "feels real to me," as the camera focused on the Yankee team taking the field...
Coach Peter Huntsman's varsity set up with Roxanne Malenbaum at stroke, Christine Laine at seven, Dottie Kent at six, and Mary Gay Sprague at five. In the bow four Barbara Pearce was in the four seat, Margret Hunt at three, Jane Roy at two and Karen Messer balanced things out from the bow seat. Linda Coffman handled the rudder duties...