Word: pantsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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He helped Hecht to found the Chicago Literary Times, an irreverent journal that described Chicago as "the jazz baby-the reeking, cinder-ridden, joyous Baptist stronghold . . . the chewing-gum center of the world, the bleating, slant-headed rendezvous of half-witted newspapers, sociopaths and pants makers." He headed east to...
Taft, though a member of the committee conducting the hearing, was not around as his old U.M.W. foe let loose. (Lewis once said of him: "Taft was born encased in velvet pants, and has lived to rivet an iron collar around the necks of millions of Americans.") But the Senator...
Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan assigned 20 detectives to the case. Within 48 hours he proudly called newsmen, produced most of the loot, and the robbers, who turned out to be anything but professional. They were unemployed hoodlums, of the variety who are called "sharpies" and who wear a uniform...
Comic Charlie Chester, who describes himself as a "British Milton Berle, only with a heart," is the man who was persuasive enough to sell sobersided BBC on doing the show. His only regret: that BBC is still too finicky to let him use announcers who will lose their pants during...
Duck Call. In Cleveland, Edward Annen, manager of a linen rental supply firm, glanced at the name and serial number inside a pair of white duck pants a customer had returned by mistake, excitedly telephoned his ex-Seabee son that the pants he lost on Okinawa during the 1945 typhoon...