Word: ole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reader is introduced to Charles Peacock, an accountant whose only distinction is that his brother is Shelmerdine Peacock, the famous Hollywood star. At the annual company dinner, Accountant Peacock tries desperately-and fails-to attract attention with his Negro-dialect reminiscences ("The last time I saw 1'il ole brudder Shel . . ."). Fortified with whisky, sherry, hock, Volnay and brandy, Peacock resorts at last to his only trick-demonstrating the "stage fall" that his brother had taught him. At the end of the party, his audience gone, Peacock falls flat a few more times for the benefit of Queen Victoria...
...bear thinking about is what is going to happen. A Hemingway character does not make things happen; things happen to him. Hemingway's people often seem like masochistic spectators of their own doom. In The Killers, Nick Adams rushes to the boardinghouse room of the ex-prizefighter Ole Andreson to warn him that two gangsters are in town to kill him. "There isn't anything I can do about it," says Ole Andreson. lying on his bed and turning his face fatalistically to the wall. There isn't anything any Hemingway character can do about his fate...
...local mills advertises a self-rising ingredient for flour and meal known as Hot Rize. For the past nine years, the fortunes of Hot Rize have been rising with a couple of hillbillies-Banjo Player Earl Scruggs and Guitarist Lester Flatt-whose musical style on Grand Ole Opry is uncannily like the gassy product they represent on the show. Scruggs and Flatt are the country's leading practitioners of a particularly corny style of country music known as "bluegrass." And, thanks in large measure to the efforts of the twanging pair, bluegrass is enjoying such a boom that...
...Spurning pro football offers, Ole Miss's All-America Quarterback and Third Baseman Jake Gibbs signed with the New York Yankees for a $100,000-plus bonus. It was the largest bonus ever paid by the Yankees, topping the old record of $75,000 paid to Pitcher Ed Cereghino in 1951. Cereghino was a flop...
ORPHEUM: Gone With the Wind is back; and Clark Gable's and Vivien Leigh's mighty saga of the Ole South is now to be seen at popular prices. A Civil War Centennial-Scarlett O'Hara extravaganza spectacular. Evenings...