Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point the wonderful politeness of it all was broken, if only momentarily, by New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey. Cried he: "Have you ever greased the palm or paid for protection in any state in the union...
...masseuse stepped into the room. Reader Sulzberger, having laid his two favorite pages on the pillow, stole glances at them as she pummeled his back. When the rite was over, he sat up, and as the masseuse worked at the fingers of his right hand, stiff from a palm affliction, Sulzberger picked up the detached Page One of the Times in his left. Rapidly, his marble-bright blue eyes took in every story. When the masseuse moved on to his left hand, Sulzberger reached for the editorial page with his right...
...material, but Actor Price, wallowing in an outrageously flamboyant role, outhams Orson Welles. For a while, radio's Quizmaster Art (People Are Funny) Linkletter, a toothy paragon of commercial insincerity, seems an inspired choice for an obnoxious giveaway M.C. But then the script switches about and tries to palm him off as a sympathetic character. Having blunted its point throughout, the picture finally tosses it away altogether by having Colman sell out to Price in a deal that gives him a quiz program...
...alone. For two weeks he had been hacking at the $1.5 billion rivers and harbors bill, trying to eliminate a list of projects which he thought were "flagrant examples of pork." Bravely he argued that the country could get along without spending $7,500 to make bathing pleasanter at Palm Beach; $21,000 to improve navigation for the crabbers of Twitch Cove, Md.; $34,500 to improve yachting at Stonington harbor, Conn. He thought that $1.3 million for dredging the Detroit River would benefit no one but the Detroit Edison Co., and that $36.9 million to improve the Ouachita River...
...well as Luigi, the new, extraverted Howard wears tasseled shoes, owns a pedigreed Airedale and lives in a penthouse. He drives a Cadillac convertible with the top down, even though it's bad for his sinus, smokes a pipe though he prefers cigarettes, goes to Palm Springs for his sun tan though he would rather go to San Francisco, stay indoors and read. During rehearsals he regularly throws calculated tantrums, thumps the table, bites his necktie and otherwise acts as an uninhibited genius is expected to act. His actors view these antics with mixed emotions, but one of them...