Word: palled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thanks for a new auto equipped to carry his wheelchair (he was crippled by a stroke in 1954). Then, exhausted, Medal-of-Honorman York beckoned to friends and was wheeled from the speaker's platform while the oratory rumbled on, returned by ambulance to his home in nearby Pall Mall...
...Pall Mall Gazette, in its leading editorial chimed, "By all means let young England rub shoulders with young America on the cinder path or anywhere else and the oftener the better...
...From Pall to Pernod. When Charlie was eleven, the year he learned to drive a car on the farm, a worried teacher told his father: "Charlie is capable in any direction. But I wonder if he'll ever be able to concentrate on any one thing." To the greater glory of Twenty One, the fear proved well grounded. In Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Charlie Van Doren studied the clarinet to become a concert artist. But though he ran up a 95 average and became the school's first student to qualify for college...
...traveling fellowship-the same one that Mark had won at Columbia in 1919-and went to Cambridge University to research his dissertation on 18th century English Poet William Cowper. But Cambridge proved frustrating, and before the academic year was out, he left abruptly for Paris "under something of a pall, without fulfilling certain obligations." According to his Cambridge landlady, who has a transatlantic eye on his TV winnings, the obligations included ?22 ($61.60) of unpaid rent...
...flesh and blood may well be doubted. But it is less the characters than the characteristics of comic-strip life that make for trouble on Broadway. Plainly the chopped-up repetitions, the churning status quo that go down fine a spoonful a day in a newspaper could sadly pall as an evening-long drink on the stage. On the stage, accordingly, Li'l Abner has been swamped with plot, which not only palls but plods. Also, by never letting anyone relax, the plot robs Dogpatch of its homey, day-to-day, ferocious charm. Something extra is frequently needed...