Word: rant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worrier may still brood. Now that an evening of parlor singing can be bought at a record store, eliminating the need for any actual singing in the parlor, why not a night's recorded conversation, eliminating the need to talk? Possible titles: Sneer Along with Mort Sahl, Rant and Rave with Senator Eastland, Analyze with Famous Freudian and Moan and Groan with Joseph Alsop...
...bring them together long enough to drive out the Spaniards. Only after Paris dispatched Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain to lead 160,000 French troops against him was Abd el Krim defeated in 1926. Taken prisoner, he escaped to Cairo, where since 1947 he has continued to rant, first against the French, and, since Morocco's independence, against King Mohammed...
...Horse's Mouth (British). Alec Guinness is hilarious as a mildewed Michelangelo. But the cinemadaption of Joyce Gary's magnificent novel of rant does not come straight from, seems rather to whicker out of the side of, the horse's mouth...
...clubs were founded. Formed in 1728, the Philomusarian Club declared in its preamble that "whereas Conversation, which is the Basis of Friendship The fundamental Principle of Society ... Is now at A Very Low Ebb ... Vice and Folly Are In Their Zenith.... And whereas Vice is Now become Alamode and Rant Riot and Excess is Accounted The Height of Good Breeding and Learning--In Order Therefore to Stem That Monstrous Tide of Impiety and Ignorance," the Philomusarian Club is formed. Seven of the ten organizers became ministers...
...South's orators may rant at the Supreme Court, but Southerners generally recognize the consequences of court rulings, indicated Pollster George Gallup last week. Gallup found that 52% of white Southerners now feel integration will inevitably come, compared to 43% when the same question was asked 14 months ago. But while they believe integration is inevitable. Southerners also predict it will not come easily: whereas 14 months ago 51% of whites thought tension between races would worsen, 59% are now of that opinion...