Word: mixer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sherrill? Bishop Sherrill was the best man for the job not only because of his church, but because of the man he is. He is a kind of personification of what every boy's mother wants him to be when he grows up: fairminded, respected, a good mixer, and an unswerving steerer down the middle of the road...
Colored by years and events, the editors who worked with him today remember FDR variously as "a cocky, conceited chap with a great name but nothing much else," the best "mixer of claret punch for the semi-annual initiations of new editors," an "energetic, resourceful, and independent" person, and a man with "remarkable capacity for dealing genially with people...
Died. Dudley Field Malone, 68, who made news all through the '20s as a big-time lawyer in Manhattan and Paris, a friend of celebrities, a mixer-in-politics and a taker-up-of-causes (feminism, persecuted Reds, Tennessee Darwinian John T. Scopes); of a heart ailment; in Culver City, Calif. Seldom in the limelight since the early '30s, Malone became a Hollywood lawyer, played Winston Churchill in the 1943 movie Mission to Moscow ("All lawyers and politicians are actors at heart...