Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Curley, as with Boston, the ordinary rules did not apply. Last week, as the mayoralty campaign heated up, the old man got up at 6 each morning, spent hours bestowing favors, made appearances at football games, banquets, parades and public meetings. Despite his age and ailments, he still managed the mellow eloquence and the matchless gall which had made him the darling of the Boston streets. Though his principal opponents were Irishmen like himself, he spoke as though he were a protector of the people crusading against the Boston Brahmins...
Today's game will donbiless follow the pattern, although the Public Relations office at Hanover is taking pains to point out that Dartmouth's injuries have practically rendered them incapable of fielding any team...
...list itself. This grouping of organizations was set up without adequate public hearings; inclusion of organizations is left up to the Attorney General. At the present time, it includes a number of groups to which a person can belong and be perfectly innocent of "subversive" activities. The list can be expanded at will; there is nothing to prevent it from some day including organizations like the Catholic War Veterans or the American Legion...
...must accept his word for that, even though the tragic fate of the two young lovers does not comply with the conventional comedy ending. Perhaps the comic element in "The Sea Gull" lies in the irony of the young writer's rejection by his mother, his sweetheart, and his public; all three of whom take to their hearts an older writer the young regards as a hack. "The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to these who feel," is Herace Walpole's useful reminder...
Overburdened by the pressure of public affairs, the eminent mayor was unable to handle the moose's schooling and commissioned his son, Sylvain, to tutor the beast. Sylvain waited until the moose attained a reasonable size and then constructed a sulky in front of which the moose was to become the swiftest beast for miles around and a pleasure for all to behold. But it soon became evident that there are certain obstacles to be overcome in the training for harness of every young moose. For one thing, moose pace, and nothing can be done about it. It would neither...