Word: pooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hotel Roosevelt Grill, and he was talking to 27-year-old Guy Lombardo the night the Royal Canadians opened there. A Chicago critic had called Lombardo's airs "the sweetest music this side of heaven," but still it made Ernst nervous. Lombardo was leaving out the boop-poop-a and just giving the dew. But Lombardo ignored him and kept fogging it into the room-for 33 years-to become one of the most popular and durable performers in U.S. show business. He has sold more than 100 million records, and 6,000,000 people have danced...
...political atmosphere in a college version of the Washington cocktail circuit. They turn quaint Georgetown houses into lively dormitories, spend their thin weekly Government salaries (about $50) feeding each other wine-and-spaghetti dinners, and vie to impress each other-and each other's dates-with the latest poop from the office. On hot news, they like to boast, the intern network scoops the wire services by at least three hours. But they choke up dutifully on classified information, which doubly helps to promote what one Yaleman jokingly calls "the illusion of indispensability...
...swarming fashion reporters and editors. With an eye on Elizabeth Taylor's movie Cleopatra, designer Guy Laroche imposed "the Cleopatra look" on his models-square hairdo, elongated eyes and all. One publicist outdid herself by describing a new line as "a silhouette that looks like a poop deck...
Once, she liked to call him "Popsie-Wopsie." Once, he liked to call her "Poop-sie-Woopsie." Last week the terms were somewhat more formal, as Arthur Miller, 44, and Marilyn Monroe, 34, prepared for divorce. After four years of one of the most celebrated show-business marriages since Tom Thumb's, it was all but over between the panduriform actress and the handsome, horn-rimmed playwright...
High above the chaos sat NBC Stars Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, seemingly lashed to a specially designed table that looked like two large boomerangs joined together. A dumb-waiter lifted hot food and hot poop up to them from below. Said Huntley: "We're on the quarterdeck of the mother ship...