Word: punk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public speaker, having delivered some 40 speeches at banquets, luncheons, club meetings. But little Pesky is still awed by his big-league teammates, especially Bobby Doerr and Lou Finney, whose shoes he used to shine when he was a "clubhouse punk" for the Portland Beavers...
...skipping out when they got too broke to pay the bill. That happened every so often. Finally they had hardly a nickel for a cup of coffee. They talked it over, a little desperate now, with a pal they had picked up, John Cullen, who was a West Side punk with a petty police record from way back. They consulted also with the greaseball, dirty Uncle Murray Hirschl...
...others abuilding and 50 more contracted for. Most of them are in the temperate South, whose largest chain, George Wilby & Associates, is so sold on Drive-Ins that it is liquidating its indoor cinemas. Despite the fact that producers refuse to sell Drive-Ins anything but old A pictures, punk Bs and westerns, most of them manage to make a respectable profit. Evidence that the producers may change their minds is $500,000 Paramount has invested in Drive-Ins through affiliates...
...Punk (England...
Plenty of people-including Critic Adolf Hitler-would agree that punk is a mild word for Jacob Epstein's statues. But those people would have plenty of contrary-minded to deal with: not the least of them Sculptor Epstein himself. For 30 years this pudgy, bumptious, Manhattan-born sculptor has kept London's salons mouth-frothing. At the same time, a respectable squad of critics has admitted that he is one of the world's foremost portrait sculptors...