Word: pussyfooting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howard Gossage, 42, who have floated to prominence clinging to champagne bottles, beer kegs, brandy snifters and, of course, fifths of Irish. In the process they have broken almost every advertising rule in the book. Their ads are casually illustrated, almost never done in color, and they can pussyfoot around a subject so quietly that the reader sometimes has trouble telling what the ad is about. What they do have is fun, an aged-in-the-wood humor that tickles readers and rings up billings of $1,000,000 a year from clients who give them some...
Such measures quieted the critics in London who were demanding the ouster of the man some called "Pussyfoot." So did Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's expression of "complete confidence in the Governor." But it was a measure of Britain's mood that when the call went out for 500 volunteers to serve in the canteens on Cyprus, no fewer than 17,000 (mostly women) stepped forward-by telephone and in queues that formed at 5 a.m.-to volunteer for duty in the turbulent front line...
Earl Carroll's Vanities lured many of '31 away from Widener, the feature attraction being Dorothy Knapp, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World." William "Pussyfoot" Johnson, former Prohibition leader, stoutly defended the College and exclaimed "Harvard men are not a bunch of inebriates!" Canada Dry, which advertised itself as containing "no red pepper and being an excellent mixing drink" found excellent accompaniment in the uninebriated Yard...
...only when we got F.D.R. that the Communists were recognized ... In coddling Communists, our entire Government has been tainted with their infiltration. I would vote for any presidential candidate who would throw these evil men out of the country. I think Eisenhower will do it; I know Stevenson will pussyfoot about...