Word: noun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noun maverick, taken from Cattleman Samuel A. Maverick* (1803-70), had long since become a recognized part of the American language. But as a proper name, it had gradually dropped out of the nation's ears since fire-bright Maury Maverick, New Deal Congressman (1935-38) and ex-mayor of San Antonio, became a political has-been. Last week, by winning a Democratic primary race for the Texas legislature, his son flicked the dust off the old name. At 29, Maury Jr., an ex-Marine officer, was verbally a mere ghost of his father; he even turned the other...
...Having asked for her to star in his The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Writer-Director Preston Sturges exploited not only her comic verve but her unsuspected capacity for pathos in a non-musical part. Says Sturges: "She's a full-fledged actress with every talent the noun implies. She plays in musicals because the public, which can do practically nothing well, is willing to concede its entertainers only one talent...
...know that North Dakota is one of the states." At the next meeting, it was a father who rose up in wrath: "What I want to know is when my boy is going to get an education? He's a musician, but he doesn't know a noun...
...word with the most meanings (800) is run and its compounds (e.g., sheep run, home run, run on a bank). Put, make, pass, stand, work-all run to the hundreds. The most commonly used noun of all is man, but it has a mere 20 meanings. All in all, Lorge figured that his hard-working 570 words have 7,000 different uses...