Word: pips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bill Vaughan, a latecomer to the trade, became a paragrapher by chance. After three years of newspapering in Springfield, Mo., he joined the editorial staff of the Star in 1939, worked at various assignments until the paper's resident paragrapher. the late Clad H. ("Pip") Thompson, retired in 1946. Vaughan replaced Pip as custodian of "Starbeams," a column of paragraphs that has stuck to the Star's editorial page since the paper's birth in 1880. (The first Starbeam: "Modjeska [a prominent 19th century actress] is fond of onions.") In 1953, when the Detroit News...
...practical prelates, and sell the sites. At city prices of close to $300 a square foot, this would provide a fabulous windfall with which to build new churches in the suburbs, raise clerical salaries and finance overseas missions. The mere thought of such desecration gave antiquarian Anglicans the pip: the City's churches-especially Wren's-were national treasures, they cried. The war damage should be repaired, and the churches could be turned into museums to remind traipsing tourists and native agnostics of the Church of England's ancient glory...
...does that pip-squeak think he is?" raged Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse about John F. Kennedy to friends on the Senate floor. What angered Morse was that Kennedy had failed to reverse a recent order by the Eisenhower Administration that shifted a regional office of the Post Office Department from Portland to rival Seattle without first consulting him. "Kennedy is not going to get my support until I get some satisfaction," said Morse. Soon after. Morse postponed Education and Labor Committee hearings on a Kennedy-backed education bill...
...Preens & Pip-Squeaks. As is customary, lighting technicians and bodice padders mumbled gratitude to their angel mothers and all the wonderful, wonderful people in the cast. As usual, the songs were mediocre and sung badly. And as usual, the M.C.-Bob Hope this time brisk, professional and apparently a little bored- was unable to tell enough jokes to bring to life the stupefying parade of pretty, smiling people introducing other pretty, smiling people...
...night in a glass of water, self-energizing mustaches, and a gap between his two front teeth that has earned him a reputation in English restaurants as a man who can eat peas with his teeth clenched. He has mastered the wax-fruity manner of the pushy little pip-pipsqueak, up from dreary digs, who would dearly love to be accepted as an old-school-tiehard, but inevitably smacks more of the pub than the club; and since the war he has done an admirable succession of non-U turns as a sort of half-inflated Blimp...