Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawn him deftly. Once a Missouri Supreme Court Justice he retired from the bench with a characteristic comment: "the people is a great beast." When Charlie comes to visit his grandfather, Old Garnier is still dispensing snorting judgments upon our modern culture from his 18th-century mansion overlooking the Mississippi. One of the cleverest portions of the book describes his approaching senility. But it never approaches far enough for him to dispense with the necessary funds for Charlie's Bhutan scheme...
...Bubble Makers is much more than just a string of jokes. Resigned to the impossibility of reaching Bhutan, Charlie valiantly battles a Mississippi flood. Although this episode is almost a separate story in itself, Goodman's skill in developing the ludicrous drama of the situation compensates for any looseness in the plot. One realizes that the role of "flood-control expert" is for Charlie a substitute Bhutan. After working himself to the point of collapse on a levee, and nearly drowning in the process, he cheerfully announces: "It was the best time I've ever had." An element of charm...
...dressed up with an eye-catching, mint-green "third section" containing the features, sports and comics as part of a plan to compartmentalize the news for easier reading. By relying more heavily on wire-service coverage of top stories, e.g., last month's "wolf whistle" murder trial in Mississippi, the Trib has saved money, expanded features and local news coverage...
...expedition was a huge success. At a cost of about $2,500, and with the loss of only one man (apparently from appendicitis, the first year out), it opened up the vast trans-Mississippi West to settlement and commerce, and established a firm basis for this nation's later claim to the Oregon country...
With this depth of background, Rock n Roll appeals to all groups. Its lyrics sound the outcry of the suffering romantic, "I'm a Mississippi bullfrog sitting on a Harlem dump, so many girls I don't know which way to jump." With equal fervor, Rock n Roll sympathizes with the nihilistic element of the Cambridge community, "I gotta Flip Flop n Fly, and I don't care...