Word: pillion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other Republican Senators, including Nebraska's Carl Curtis and Iowa's Jack Miller, grumbled that the resolution was too soft. Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers said it was only a "first step." In the House, New York's Republican Congressman John R. Pillion thundered that the resolution was "worse than no resolution at all. It scraps the Monroe Doctrine. It legitimizes a foreign regime in Cuba, telling it you can stay there unless you do this or that...
Sheathed in a tight skirt, Princess Margaret, 31, showed a bit of thigh as she hopped behind Husband Tony for her first spin on a motorcycle in rural Somersetshire and was promptly knocked from pillion to post by London fashion editors who thought "chic and cheerful" trousers would have been more suitable. Nothing fazed, Meg cheerfully let herself in for more complaints about royal overexposure by showing up at a London theater in a one-strap evening gown that displayed a dazzling expanse of shoulder...
...social arbiter Mrs. Cortelyou ("When above 79th Street, do as they do above 79th Street"); the warring psychiatrists Dr. Onan L. Digges ("the Saniflush of the Unconscious") and the "Freudy-cat" Dr. Selig J. Reichner; Miss La Fosse, who claims that she graduated from Vassar at twelve and rode "pillion on an older man's motor cycle" long before anyone heard of Lolita. When these characters converge in the back corridors or the main dining hall of Serenity House, they strike continuous comic sparks. At times the characters-and the book-show the strain of trying to make every...