Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Elizabeth was to get her first honorary degree next week. The University of London decided the proper thing would be a Bachelor of Music. Meanwhile, a tartan sash over her white gown, she did all right in the dance department, with a fine Highland reel at the Royal Canadian Ball...
...Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...
Robert Moses, New York's panjandrum Park Commissioner, seized the occasion of the National Institute of Social Sciences' annual dinner to reel off impacted phrases until the gunpowder ran out the heels of his boots-his favorite hobby. "I have learned not to run up a high temperature and blood pressure," said Speaker Moses, "over the intolerant off-scourings of minds inflamed by revolutionaries . . . the wisecracks of sophisticates who are the eunuchs of our metropolitan seraglio, the lofty disdain of ivory-tower planners, the bitter, irresponsible mouthings of the radical press, the cheese spread of radio commentators...
...which also cooks the fish he catches), goes goose-bumpy at the thought of hooking a 50-lb. sailfish (which are accommodating enough to bite the year round), hires a boat, or joins a party that wants to split expenses. Then, begoggled and suntan oiled, and supplied with rod, reel and heavy 24-thread line that experts would blush at using, he is lugged to Gulf Stream fishing spots. Captain or mate tutors him in the "drop back" sail-fishing technique (i.e., when a fish hits the bait with its bill as if to stun it, the fisherman counts slowly...
...Barnet Hodes an opening; he claimed that Chicago's libraries had 125,000 more books than Boston's had. Chicago, like the other delegations, had a newsreel to show its beauties. As the commentator said "This is the sort of thing worthy of study in Chicago," the reel stuck, and a bevy of fan dancers on ice skates froze on the screen, grinning toothily at the statesmen...