Word: parente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party's nomination for Congress from the 26th District in spite of his formal admissions of wholesale adultery (later denied), Candidate James Roosevelt found the going rough. Protesting his endorsement by the district's Democratic Council, the South La Cienega Democratic Club withdrew from the parent group with the blast: "On the basis of [Roosevelt's] unique attitude toward the Seventh Commandment . . . we would rather not be a party to this reckless gambling of our present Democratic seat in Congress...
...surface, delinquency in "good" families (where slum conditions and juvenile gangs are not a factor) seems hard to explain. But where the two psychiatrists were able to study both child and parents, they reported, the child's "defect" was always traceable to one parent or both...
...Sammons family also puts out Who Knows−And What, Who's Who in Commerce and Industry and several other similar books in which names often go that do not make the parent edition. For imitators who pirate his list for other books, Editor Sammons has devised a neat trap. Under every alphabetical division, he has a "burglar alarm," a fake listing of a nonexistent person with an address that leads right back to Who's Who's door. Pirates trapped last year...
...chronicle of three characters in search of a parent, its use of knowledgeable servants and titled sinners, its display of highborn eccentricity, its going in for shameless interruptions at climactic moments, The Confidential Clerk is the glaringly legitimate offspring of Gilbert & Sullivan and Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest. Its tone, moreover, is often as artificial as its plot is absurd. But plainly, Eliot's bantering is only skin-deep; plainly his "Who am I?" is no mere parlor game, but a cry from the heart; and his reshufflings of parentage involve revelations about life. Beneath...
...give up the sole hiring-and-firing powers and let other committee members have a say in staff employment, 2) permit the Democrats to have a minority counsel and clerk, 3) allow the Democrats to block public hearings by their own unanimous vote, unless overruled by the parent Government Operations Committee. The stray lambs, Senators John McClellan, Henry Jackson and Stuart Symington, agreed to rejoin the committee. Said Joe: "I was glad-strike the word glad-happy to compromise...