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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thesaurus. In Charleston, W.Va., after consulting the rule book, Western Union told Mrs. A. W. Hawkins Jr. that she must use no such insulting word as "moron" in her telegram, accepted the wire when she substituted "witling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...Moron, the Right Bower. But the key man was big, beefy James J. Moran, a jaunty, florid, Irish-politician type. Once a court clerk, Moran had long been Wil liam O'Dwyer's political right bower. As O'Dwyer rose, so did Moran. When O'Dwyer became mayor, he made Moran first deputy fire commissioner and let it be known that all things political were to be "cleared with Jim Moran." As a last act, the departing mayor had appointed him to his lifetime $15,000-a-year job as a city water commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Crime Hunt in Foley Square | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...mayor including the mayor of Boston--who believes in the asininity that local officials cannot end racketeering in his town in either a liar or a moron," claimed Ray Sprigle, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, at last night's Law Forum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sprigle States Police Fail To Enforce Laws | 12/9/1950 | See Source »

...Manhattan, warming up for her debut as a pro, Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moron modeled her latest play to the tennis galleries: leopard-skin panties. Undecided what to wear on her six-month tour of the country, she thought it would be "something simple, made out of better material than the dresses for amateur matches"-perhaps black velvet panties "completely covered except when I move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Calloused Hand | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Tennis Player Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moron, whose lengthy pigtails have become almost as famous as her lace panties, shocked her admirers by appearing at the London airport with a "sort of an overgrown urchin cut." Explained Gussie: "They were getting on my nerves. I got up this morning and there was my hair down the back of my neck. So I got out my scissors and snipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Hemisphere, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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