Word: mistah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charismatic MacArthur, and he is not yet a hero, as was Ike when he returned from Europe in 1945. Yet from the moment when House Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller swept down the center aisle of the packed chamber last week and announced, in his resonant Southern accent, "Mistah Speak-ah, Gen'ral William C. Westmoreland," the tall, tanned soldier held Congress in thrall...
There was the familiar cry from Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller: "Mistah Speak-ah! The President of the United States!" There was the rush of applause, the flutter of outstretched arms in the aisle as Lyndon Johnson wove his way toward the rostrum, the predictable burst of foolishness from the Speaker, from whom tradition demands an excessive introduction: ". . . great pleasure . . . highest privilege . . . distinguished, personal honor-of presenting to you the President of the United States...
Going Hollywood is not as simple as going native. To be Mistah Kurtz or a Paul Gauguin, one has to learn little ritual incantations; to survive in Hollywood one must take survival training. Even chameleons die there of eczema, looking in their last hours like iguanas by Jackson Pollock. Yet people can live there, if they know how. A 1964 survival textbook for men and women...
...five minutes before nine the warning bell clanged, and the chattering parliamentarians in the lobby began to file into the House to take their seats. Precisely on the hour, a voice raised the traditional cry "Mistah Speakah," and the legislators froze as a bemedaled attendant solemnly descended the nine red-carpeted steps into the well of the House and laid a golden mace on the table separating the government front benches from those of the opposition. After a prayer calling down God's protection on the nation and Queen Elizabeth II, the Speaker, in his English-accented English, called...