Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayor Vern L. Smith proclaimed a "Hildegarde Day," and stores were closed and schools let out; between halves of the Bloomfield-Milan (Mo.) football game the Bloomfield band formed an "H" on the field. In Grand Forks, N.Dak., where she arrived in the midst of the potato-digging season, she was honored with a peck of spuds...
...Novelist Forester push aside the hot roast beef of history, as he served it in the Hornblower series, to take up a cold contemporary potato like Randall? Says Forester: to convey the impact of fate on a man "who has lived through the wars and the depressions." In two projected novels, Randall is due for a flyer in high finance and a dive into the submarine campaigns of World...
Hoagy Carmichael, a lean little man with a smile that wrinkles his eyes, played the piano in the Lowell House dining room Monday night. There were pretzels and potato chips and free beer on the serving tables, and most of the house came down to listen...
After playing "Monkey Song," Carmichael started "Stardust," very quietly. He played it through, and got people to sing with him, and then he stopped. They cheered as he walked out; there was no beer left, and the floor was covered with the remains of potato chips and pretzels. Mr. Carmichael smiled again, briefly, as he went through the door and headed for his next show...
After fanaticism, Orwell attacks intellectual humbug. In Politics and the English Language he excoriates the light-fingered journalists, heavy-handed politicos and potato-mouthed bureaucrats who, through carelessness or snobbery, are maiming the English language. In The Prevention of Literature he baits, hooks and dries the doublethink Communist intellectuals. Unlike most American criticism, which is written in a weird graduate school code, Orwell's literary essays are directed, without condescension or pedantry, to the non-expert who reads for pleasure...