Word: progenitor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reviewer of The Wobblies [July 7] took me through iambic, pentameter, didactic, hortatory, diffident, progenitor, detestation, existentialism, scintilla, quixotic, schematic, protagonist, bourgeois, onomatopoetically, proletariat, crux, status quo, ante, minimal, prosody, recalcitrant, quiescent, ideologically, ascendancy, coalesce, dactyl and elegiac. But what, pray, is a bindle stiff? Is it possible that your man owns all these words as an integral part of his vocabulary...
Hypnotic & Glossy. Just as Charles W. ruled over the family, so the show is dominated by the near-Olympian progenitor who completed more than 1,000 pictures and sired 17 offspring by three successive wives (he died at 85, busy courting a fourth). A man of plain-spun charm, he had fought and wintered at Valley Forge, painted George and Martha Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Lafayette and many of the other great men of the day in a style renowned for its affable simplicity. Like his lifelong friend Thomas Jefferson, he was an enthusiastic naturalist and inventor, experimented with everything from...
...Progenitor of the aerotrain is 49-year-old Engineer-Designer Jean Berlin, who in August 1965, after eight years at the drawing board, received a $600,000 grant from France to build and test his invention on a 31-mile stretch of unused railroad track between the villages of Gometz and Limours. Bertin, who already had the backing of a $1,000,000 company made up of 18 industrial giants such as the French National Railroads, Nord Aviation and Hispano-Suiza, ripped up the standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped...
...Lafpoon, and one with the same possibilities that the Ugly Duckling promised. But it is as unprovocative as it can be. If the good burghers of Bayeux ever see a copy, they may mutter a few "Sacre bleus," but who else could it provoke? Even the Lampoon's toothless progenitor, Punch, doesn't shy away from talking politics. Nor should the Lampoon, which never takes a stand, never catches you unawares, never makes you drop your jaw and the magazine at an outrageous line. In olden days, jesters felt obliged to insult monarchs. It is time that the Lampoon lived...
...something of a wonder that the merger did not take place long ago. As early as 1803, one denominational precursor of the Wesleyan-spirited E.U.B. held tentative merger consultations with the Methodists; in 1871, another E.U.B. progenitor, the Evangelical Association, approved by one vote a union with the Methodists that was never consummated...