Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all gossip columnists, Irv Kupcinet finds nightclubs exciting, and gets some of the excitement into his column. Every night, sportily dressed in a shirt with long Sinatra-style points (and with KUP loudly emblazoned on his handkerchief, tie clasp, cuff links and gold ring) he patrols such spots as Chez Paree and the Shangri-La, slapping backs, sipping coffee, soaking up column items. His red-haired wife tags along, often wearing a blouse stenciled with his columns. He haunts the Pump Room of the swank Ambassador East Hotel, a telephone plugged in at his table. Even at home, where...
Time was when the proceedings of anything calling itself the World Congress of Intellectuals would have been dignified and deadly dull. Last week, however, when such a congress met in Poland's Wroclaw (formerly Germany's Breslau), the spectators could not decide which ring of the circus to watch...
...first thing they found when they arrived last week was a pleasant little duplex waiting for them. They had no sooner moved in than their phone began to ring and visitors were calling. It was all a part of Portland's welcome to its 250 new teachers...
...beaded chiffon dress, the little old lady looked like a tintype grandmother. Her birdlike, smiling face was framed in a white lace collar and black ribbon choker; on her feet were pointed little one-button shoes. But there were surprising touches too: as a guard for her wedding ring she wore a blue celluloid chicken band, and one ear had a bright green dab of paint...
...Leonards opened the latest addition to their cut-price department store. It upped their selling space by half, making it one of the largest retail houses in the Southwest. They expect 100,000 customers on opening day, hope never to see a day when the cash registers fail to ring up $100,000 in sales...