Word: rist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here's the idea. A guy who never heard jazz before meanders into the room for a drink and is assailed with 18 choruses of "Sensation Rag." Ordinarily, he might think "Ki-rist, what the hell is this?" but a little card on the table explains "You are listening to dixieland jazz. . . This is the music of gay New Orleans, of Buddy Bolden and king Oliver, of Jelly Roll Morton and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. . . . Only at the Dixieland Room of the Copley Square Hotel can Bostonians...
Still more exclusive back-patting travel group is the Kee Club, named after the mythical Kee bird, which flies around the North Pole plaintively crying: "Kee-KeeKee-rist, but it's cold!" Membership emblem : a walrus tooth on a key chain. To qualify for membership (by invitation only), initiates must have accomplished any two of four feats: completed a mission above the Arctic Circle; ridden the White Pass & Yukon Railway from Whitehorse to Skagway; flown across the mountains from Whitehorse to Norman Wells on the Mackenzie; gone down the Yukon from Fort Yukon to the mouth...
...riotously voted an investigation of fuel oil rationing. (The House GOP leader applied an old gag to a new situation: "I hear that a lot of parents around the United States are being called Key Birds-they shudder down in the bottom of their cages and say, 'Key-rist, it's cold.' ") It made little difference that this is a Federal problem: Illinoisans must be kept informed (and GOPsters can gather a little campaign material). By the time the investigation is completed, it will be warm...
...Santa Monica dance marathon as it passed the 200-hour mark, encouraged one of the contestants by remarking: "You don't know what it is to be tired unless you've worked for Curtiz." Big, balding, muscular Director Curtiz is married to but living apart from Scena rist Bess Meredyth. Only extravagance he permits himself on his $3,000 a week is his two-goal polo...
...series of extremely polite, individual (not form) letters begging that no more lubricants be sold, for the time being, to Belgium, The Netherlands and Denmark, who have bought all the lubricants Great Britain thinks they need just now. To the U. S. sailed two Cross emissaries-Professor Charles Rist, formerly of the Bank of France, and Frank Ashton-Gwatkin of the British Foreign Office-to try to explain to irritated U. S. businessmen the finer points and necessities of Economic Warfare...