Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Joe Kennedy wrote his epitaph of Paramount, many a Wall Streeter figured he was dead right. Paramount had just stumbled out of bankruptcy without appearing to shed any of the overgrown ineptitude that had put it in there. Adolph Zukor put Paramount together in 1912. Its roots were in the days when nickelodeons were gold mines and Mary Pickford made her first $20,000 a year. An expansionist of such resolution that the trade began calling him a monopolist, Zukor bought stars and studios until Paramount and Hollywood were synonymous...
When Marva Trotter, a socially ambitious Chicago stenographer, married Joe six years ago, she hoped, like most wives, to make him over. But Joe Louis, still an unsophisticated, overgrown kid, steadfastly refused to go high-hat. He still won't go to the theater, read books, talk politics. But he can talk till the cows come home about swing bands, baseball, golf and his saddle horses, Flash and Annabelle White Star...
...only a run-down vacant lot on the edge of East Cambridge. Overgrown with weeds and tall grass, littered with broken bottles and rusty tin cans--hardly an inspiring sight. But add to this eyesore 235 play-hungry kids, a brigade of willing undergraduates, and a dash of cooperation from the City of Cambridge. Result: a recipe for civic improvement. A dash of cooperation? None is forthcoming. The local Park Board has contributed only an official frown...
...have about decided that the Glamour one looks for in college men is in the case of Harvard men completely overgrown with ivy. I am sure the founders of Harvard chose Crimson as the college color with rare foresight, to match the blushes of embarrassment at all the boners pulled by Harvard men. Princeton's Orange and Black symbolize the combination of golden sunshine to light the way to learning, and darkness to shut out snobbishness. That's why I pick Princeton to beat Harvard at anything." --Princeton Sunday News. (Ed. note: Roses are red, violets are blue-- Chaque personne...
...dirty Pasig River flowed under part of the Malacañan Palace (an overgrown Filipino stilt-house) in the Philippines. From the porch the Taft boys went swimming, and there Bob was stung by a jellyfish...