Word: phoenixed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complete agreement" with a number of things Dewey has said. Things such as these: "Our streams should abound with fish," (Denver, Sept. 21); "Everybody that rides in a car or bus uses gasoline and oil," (also in Denver); "You know that your future is still ahead of you," (Phoenix, Sept. 23); and "Ours is a magnificent land--every part of it," (also in Phoenix...
Outsider. In Phoenix, Ariz., Harold Sloper told the court that ever since his wife persuaded him four years ago that they should move in with her former husband, everybody in the house had been treating him like a boarder...
With Indiana's two biggest dailies in his hands, ex-Police Reporter Pulliam, an energetic behind-the-scene GOPoliticker, became a major publisher (he owns the Phoenix Gazette and Arizona-Republic, papers in Muncie, Vincennes, Huntington and Lebanon, and two radio stations). In Indianapolis, his paper's circulation outnumbers Roy Howard's afternoon Times (circ. 91,000). Last week, Howard said that the merger gave his Times "added responsibilities [which] we are fully prepared to meet." One possibility: a Scripps-Howard Sunday Times to do battle with Pulliam's Sunday Star...
...cultivators in the days of imperial patronage developed more than 20 rare varieties of wondrous beauty . . . Many old established residents . . . have kept up the cultivation of goldfish in their private pools. In my courtyard there are several dozen fish, including the rare Red Dragon-Eye and the Five-Flowered Phoenix ... If this ridiculous foreign project [DDT spraying] is carried out, it will mean the end of all Peiping's goldfish. Then what man will be able to sit under his peng on a warm summer day and study the gentle undulations of fins and tails? The very thought...
...long last, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger got rid of her floundering Phoenix Arizona Times. The new majority stockholder is G. Hamilton Beasley, a wealthy Los Angeles investment broker with a home near Phoenix. The minority stockholders are a dozen Phoenix business and professional men. The sale price was a secret, but Phoenicians gossiped that Anna and her backers had lost their shirts and that the new owners merely assumed the paper's bills. The new publisher of the Times is Columbus Giragi, bombastic New Deal-hating political columnist...