Word: nods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interior of the Casino Español, under the flutter of ceiling fans, the talk is of sugar prices and the new timber-cut in Mindanao as the members of Manila's power elite discuss their endeavors. Polished ilustrados in dark Italian suits and handsome women in bright mestiza dresses nod politely to aging Carmen Soriano and her 39-year-old son José Maria, heirs of the Soriano fortune (Cebu copper mines, Samar iron, Mindoro cattle and dairy, Mindanao mahogany and San Miguel beer). American businessmen from Esso and Caltex, Hawaiian Dole and General Foods, are prominent in the Manila Polo...
...SHOW gives a passing nod to Alfred E. Neuman's mad mag, but concentrates its satiric discourtesies on fringes of life and society more foolish than lunatic...
...symphony musician - bored, frustrated and anonymous. So he didn't become the second Heifetz as everybody back in Glen Falls said he would. There was nothing else to do but join a big-city symphony, file lock-step onto the stage - no talking, please - and, at the nod of the imperious maestro, saw away mechanically at the Brahms First for the 101st time...
Viqor & Vision. Picasso's choice was for the airy figure, untitled but unmistakably feminine. Its graceful symmetry, sweeping lines and enigmatic features suggest more than a passing nod to U.S. tradition, which has usually portrayed Justice as a blindfolded goddess weighing scales, often combined with an eagle in flight...
Died. Al Kelly, 69, doubletalking comic, who for 51 years delighted all sorts of audiences, prompting conventioning doctors to nod sagely at such prescriptions as "injections of triprobe into the right differnarian" and once inspiring Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton to exclaim: "If ever a man be longed in Washington, you do"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...