Word: nabobs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gees started peddling their demos in the crowded, demanding London scene. They received scant interest until they got a call from a Mr. Stickweed, who turned out to be Robert Stigwood, the pop music nabob. An audition was arranged. Stigwood arrived, late and hung over, and kept his head buried in his arms as the boys gave him their version of Puff (The Magic Dragon). "We started to worry we were making his hangover even worse," Maurice remembers. Finally Stigwood cut them off, mumbled something that sounded complimentary and signed them to a five-year contract. Says Robin: "We realized...
Banished to the loser's bracket, the Crimson then faced Princeton for their second battle of the day. Normally quite peaceful creatures, the Tigers went wild. Minutes into the game a Nassau nabob trashed one of Harvard's own and the war was on--kick in the shins followed punch in the stomach followed smash in the face. Smarting from its earlier loss to Yale, the Crimson wasn't taking things lightly...
JEREMIADS SUCH AS these Newman makes against the state-of-the-union's language are as old as the day Babylonian scholars compiled a text on "Style and Form of Hieroglyphics." Any nabob with alert ears and open eyes can natter negativism about decadence in American, verbal or otherwise. More important than the fact of degeneracy are the reasons behind it. Newman does make a stab at why the American language has become so cheapened. While Watergate was making its contribution, he writes, "a different process has been under way in another sector, where respect for rules has been breaking...
...there had been. If Agnew hoped to gain politically, he had badly misread the mood of the nation, which heavily favored Nixon's steps toward detente with China. The conservative Detroit News, for instance, which normally supports Agnew, dismissed his dissent as the "nihilism of a know-nothing nabob...
...does not have to be an effete snob, a nattering nabob, or even a Democrat to be thoroughly offended by the contrived, consciously catchy mixed metaphors daily being flung at us by Spiro Agnew [Sept. 21]. One gets the impression that this buffoon is just discovering his power to appeal to people's prejudices for his own purposes. Probably Agnew has already planned his first post-V.P. book: Selected Smashing Speeches by the Sensation of the '70s. One suspects that he is also running for the title: Most Vocal and Vituperative Veep of the Century...