Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the probability of such scattered increases, there still seemed little threat of any overall puff of new inflation. Nevertheless, the Eisenhower Administration was taking no chances. Back into harness as stabilization consultant came James F. Brownlee, 61, a Manhattan businessman who did stints with OPA and WPB during World War II, at war's end became deputy director in the Office of Economic Stabilization. Brownlee, working with Studebaker's President Harold S. Vance, will help set up new mobilization machinery. Best guess is that Jim Brownlee would make a strong argument for a stand-by control bill...
Stahmann is looking beyond the mere marketing of frozen geese, is already figuring out new commercial uses for feathers and down (e.g., a goosedown powder puff), expects to sell a lot of down for army bedrolls. Eventually he thinks he may make more out of the feathers than the geese...
...those who have not yet been able to penetrate Dickens' wordy, comic society Williams offers extensive introductions. His thirty-five characters are each sharply etched, sometimes by a gesture of the performer, sometimes by a line from the author. As Mrs. Pardiggle, an officious do-gooder, Williams seems to puff out, his voice crispens, his eye arrests. And Dickens delineates shrewish Mrs. Snagsby with "she has a nose like a sharp autumn-evening, inclining to be frosty...
...king's ransom besides) in the null by leading the best swing band in history. Instead of the cream-puff stuff fashionable bands were spooning out, Benny had his men play the jive they lived for. Dragging players came to fear Benny's long, poker-faced squint aimed at them over the tops of his glasses. They called it simply "The Ray." He rehearsed them until they swung as one-a writhing, flashing, soaring serpent of sound. "If you're interested in music," Benny remarks soberly, "you can't slop around. I expected things, and they...
...eight bills for a barefoot bucket of bolts that was down on its knees with 38 on the clock, and two dozen for a loaded cream puff with a few dings." I was reminded of some more lingo that one might encounter between two used-car dealers when I read your Oct. 13 article on the adman's jargon: "Dog, lemon, roach, bucket of bolts, Southern beauty, Detroit taxicab," etc. (a used car in very poor condition); "piece, piece of iron" (any car); "heat and music" (radio and heater); "bill" ($100); "dozen" ($1,200) "cream puff" (a used...