Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation and lugubriously pictured the U.S. housewife hunched over her electric stove, the burden of taxes weighing heavily on her shoulders. Up from behind a paper-littered desk rose Colorado's Republican Senator Eugene Millikin to trade political insults. (Douglas chided the G.O.P. for a recent Government pamphlet on Ways to Cook Rabbit. Millikin recalled a Democratic treatise on the love life of a watermelon.) Then Gene Millikin stumped to the rear of the chamber, puffed on a cigarette, and licked his lips in anticipation of a good fight. He watched Douglas for five minutes, then stumped...
Hardly any ex-Glee Club member who sang under Davison can forget his manner of conducting. In his pamphlet "The Reformation of the Glee Club" published in 1922, Frederick Lewis Allen '12 described a typical Davisonian rehearsal: "As you slip into a seat at the rear of the room, you hear, cutting through the deep, swelling tones of the chorus, Davison's sharp voice: 'Now's your chance! That's it! Good! First rate! This is a bad place; look out for it! That's the way, basses! Eyes! Eyes...
...mannerisms. His Harvard career was interrupted by a hitch in the seagoing Army Transport Service. Soon after graduation (class of '49), Dave was installed as president of Schine Hotels, Inc., although his father kept tight control of the operations. Dave distinguished himself by writing a remarkably succinct pamphlet, Definition of Communism, and father Schine saw to it that copies were as prominent in Schine hotel rooms as the Gideon Bible...
...bald man snickered. Out from his pocket he pulled a small pamphlet entitled "For Better Neighbors." It seemed to have something to do with Brotherhood Week. "Did you see this," he said to Mr. X, pointing to the organization listed on the pamphlet as sponsors...
...Forum drew to an end. After the final applause, the bald man stood up and donned his black coat with the velvet collar. With a quick check of his pocket to make sure he had the Memorial Church list and the "Better Neighbors" pamphlet, he turned and strode...