Word: palship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...First Bertrand Russell, 90, turtlenecked civil insurgent, resigned as president on the grounds that he had other things to do-things like writing a book about the peacemaker's role he believes he played in the Cuban and Sino-Indian crises, and keeping up his pen-palship with Khrushchev, Chou En-lai and Castro. Then Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 25, sidewalk-sitting daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, resigned by mail. A Committee of One Hundred spokesman refused to talk about Vanessa's reason for bombing the bans: "I cannot say anything more than that it was a short letter...
Though he makes much of his palship with the President, Smathers more often than not votes against the President's programs in the Senate; of 124 roll calls involving Administration-backed bills, Smathers last year supported Kennedy only 47% of the time. Says one Democratic leader: "Every time we talk about one of these key bills with the President, Smathers just sits there and says, 'Well, I wish I could go along with the rest of you fellows on this one, but you know...
...left"). His one-room apartment is an insult to the Ladies' Home Journal. Amid the debris is Murray's prize possession, his twelve-year-old ward and nephew Nick. Winningly played by Barry Gordon, Nick is polysyllabic without being precious. Murray and Nick share a zany palship. On a crowded elevator Murray levels an admonitory finger at Nick and says loudly: "Max, there'll be no more of this self-pity. You're 40. It's about time you got used to being a midget...
...most popular restaurants in Manhattan. During that time he befriended the low and the mighty, urged them to drink sturdily and eat what one habitué called his "training table" food. He pounded their backs, and they counted themselves lucky if they were awarded with "palship," Toots's ultimate accolade. He was favored by politicos; Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower had him to the White House, and Jack Kennedy invited him to his inauguration. Every ballplayer worth his mitt got the de luxe, or crumb-bum treatment, and even Bernard Baruch, elder statesman of the stock market ticker, benched...
...whom deeply dislike him. To the heads of 23 corporations he sent personal letters asking them to pay in advance some $28 million in state business taxes due between mid-March and mid-May. Despite their distaste for Soapy's big-spending habits and his longstanding political palship with United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther. the corporation bosses helped out; General Motors alone put up $13 million. But this bailout only postponed the crisis...