Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Steelman, sometimes dubbed "Assistant President," is the man who keeps things from piling up when the boss is away. Recently, moon-faced John Steelman found himself at the bottom of a pile...
...Hanover Bulletin pointed out sympathetically, "is a pleasant fellow, but there was no doubt . . . he had been sent on a mission and that he was mostly interested in proving a point. For example, he said . . . 'if the Colonel says to do a story to prove that the moon is green, we go out and prove...
Furthermore, the Dartmouth rebuttal had touched a tender spot. One of the alumni who saw it was none other than Tribune Managing Editor "Pat" Maloney (Dartmouth '13). The Trib promptly called Ottawa to ask Griffin about that "moon is green" crack. Griffin issued a blustering denial: "The Dartmouth bull about me was just a lot of goddamn lies by some scared, chickentrack Dickey jerks who can't contradict what I wrote. They were afraid the alumni will look into what's going on at Dartmouth, so they tried like hell to get me fired...
...announced that it is also to be his last. If he sticks to that, 74-year-old Author Maugham, England's most popular contemporary novelist, will have brought to an end a career that has included such lasting favorites as Of Human Bondage, Cakes & Ale, and The Moon and Sixpence, as well as 57 volumes of short stories, essays, travel books and plays...
...Burbank, Calif, last week, Walt Disney was presented with the 5,000,000th watch to be manufactured with the name and likeness of Mickey Mouse. As he put it among his trophies, Disney smiled at a beaming, moon-faced Manhattan salesman named Kay Kamen...