Word: performer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michelangelo statue. "In general," drawled Stainless, "heroics is mah business." His business soon proved so successful that the number of papers taking the strip from the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate rose from 126 to 148 (including 39 in foreign countries). This week Stainless Steel was getting ready to perform a most unheroic act: he will take over the strip from Scarlet O'Neil. Customer papers will get a letter from the syndicate: "Stainless Steel has shoved the lady right out of the ink bottle . . . From now on, it's Stainless Steel...
...musical revues they perform have paper-thin plots that are traditional in the beginning, but undergo metamorphoses as the show wears on. Even such a popular set piece as the famed Kabuki Lion Dance gets a startling new tail twist: it starts off traditionally with a dancer in a furry, tasseled leonine head, but in the end scores of Takarazuka girls, dressed as butterflies in tight leotards and wings, abandon their fluttering and go into a high-kicking routine to rival the Rockettes...
...Alumni Relations Committee will perform three major functions in increasing the effectiveness of alumni as publicity for the College...
...Leader. He reminisced as to how he had to assist in poultry husbandry of the baby chicks and "to remove tapeworms from their throats by the use of a hair from the tail of a horse [TIME, Nov. 15]." Like him, I too often watched my mother perform a similar operation, [but] the only parasite my dear Republican mother was ever able to extract from the chick's throat was gapeworms...
...system of varied room rents gives to the Housemasters a tremendous job which they are not equipped to perform. In assigning suites, the Masters are supposed to give poorer members the low rent rooms, and the wealthier students accommodations at higher prices. The rent adjustment funds are designed to provide some flexibility in the assignment process. But Housemasters have found that well-to-do students will argue long and vigorously for the luxurious, but low priced suites. Unless the Masters know the prosperity of every student in the House, they cannot administer the varied room rent system very wisely...