Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Lloyd Wright, 78, was a little worried. While designing a mortuary for San Francisco's Nicholas P. Daphne, the dean of U.S. architecture got to wondering "if I felt as well as I should. But Nick had a way of referring to the deceased, always, as 'the merchandise,' and that would cheer me up. I pulled through...
Answer. In Moultrie, Ga., an irate traffic cop demanded an autoist's name, for an answer got "Scram"-and, just in the nick of time, the rest of it: Joe Scram...
...were billing shows like Burlesquer Lois De Fee's "Rumba A-peel." Muggsy Spanier, who looks like a waterfront Noel Coward, and Trombonist Miff Mole, who looks like a middle-aged dentist, were playing music that had a lot more drive to it than it had had at Nick's in the Village...
Hearst trained seals, cartoonists and columnists, who could not afford to laugh it off, got into the act as gracefully as possible. Amiable Rhymester Nick Kenny wrote a poem ("Loafing in a barroom, see them in a row; Silly women barflies, putting on a show. . . .") The doggerel brought Poet Kenny a nasty note from a woman in Brooklyn: "Confidentially, I think you're going nuts...
...pale-faced friar exclaimed: "No miracle is impossible to God. It is not impossible for God to lift the angry clouds that hang so heavily on 1948's beginning." Barbanera (Black-beard), a popular almanac of astrology, predicted for 1948: "Unsuccessful diplomatic encounters . . . conflict avoided in the nick of time...