Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present era of "merged" education in Cambridge, a Radcliffe publication must be exceptional indeed to survive. If the Annex is an unique--as many say it is--there should be a place for a unique publication. The editors of the latest experiment, Percussion, now in its fourth week, must discover this role, or their paper, like its many predecessors, will be extinguished
Gauging Hangovers. "She is altogether too good for your preschool children." wrote TV Critic John Crosby, "and should have a show aimed at older children, say. me.'' Among older children who have fallen for her are Pat Boone and Jerry Lewis. Sammy Davis Jr. will stay up all night to be sure to catch her show when he is in New York. Other adult male viewers find the going a bit sticky. Says one: "Much depends on the strength of one's stomach, extent of one's hangover, love of young mothers, and ability to endure...
...find a sunny desert replete with enough Spanish soldiers (about 2,000) and enough horses (about 200). For a while, Ty's business partner, Ted Richmond, even considered Israel, finally gave up the idea because of a shortage of Israeli troops and possible international complications. ("What would Nasser say if we gave real arms to 2,000 Israeli soldiers...
...market plunge only on established painters-those already on the big board, so to speak. The purists argue that pictures held like stocks in a bank vault do no one any good. They insist they would rather hold such pictures for the public-which is to say, for the museums-or, failing that, for private collectors who will at least cherish them...
...Colonel Cantrell, a cold collation of cliches, who provides a brutal portrait of a modern British bureaucrat. ¶ Sophie Bielska, who is destroyed by her own Anglophilia. She loves to say "dash it all," and her finest hours are those she spends with her fine British friends; happily, perhaps, she never makes it to an England that never was. ¶Herbert Wragg, whose honeymoon was spoiled because the toilet paper at the progressive boarding house he stayed at consisted of squares from the Daily Worker...