Word: quirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your mouth, adds any dignity to yourself or the important office of governor? . . . If you do, you should have stayed down in the sandhills of west Texas, where the boys come into town on a Saturday riding a mountain lion and using a live rattlesnake for a quirt...
This full, rich life ended with a bang in 1931. It was a time when many a silent star suddenly became a has-been. Boyd has another reason for his decline: another actor named William Boyd (who had played Sergeant Quirt in the Broadway version of What Price Glory?) was raided by the police during a noisy party and thrown into jail for possession of illegal whisky and gambling equipment. Hopalong-to-be suffered; when newspapers ran his picture by mistake, Radio Pictures tore up a $3,000-a-week contract, pushed him adrift...
...Manpower Commission in World War II, she evolved "the Buffalo Plan," juggling manpower on the basis of priorities, which was copied across the U.S. An ardent supporter of Fiorello La Guardia, and like him, volatile, unpredictable and tireless, she can be coy as Bo-Peep or brassy as Sergeant Quirt. Running her own labor-and public-relations business on the side, Mrs. Rosenberg (whose husband, Julius Rosenberg, is a Manhattan rug dealer) earned up to $60,000 a year for advising such clients as R. H. Macy & Co., I. Miller (shoes) and Nelson Rockefeller...