Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some, Author Phillips' description of Salem's great moment may seem like a rather ill-timed assertion of the superiority of the past. Yet Mr. Phillips' account of the Salem Federalists is enlightening. Jefferson in maritime New England was about as popular as Sherman became in Georgia. At the very height of Salem's prosperity, Jefferson's embargo (his "moral equivalent" of war against Britain) destroyed it. The Federalists, sympathizing with England rather than with Napoleonic France, had no confidence in Jefferson's motives or in his economics. A hundred vessels...
Angel in the Wings (music & lyrics by Carl Sigman & Robert Hilliard; produced by Marjorie & Sherman Ewing) is that rare thing these days, an intimate revue; and that even rarer thing, a gay one. Injecting the gaiety are: 1) Grace Hartman, 2) Paul Hartman, 3) Hank Ladd. The three of them are the whole show; or rather, and most unfortunately, they aren't. Included also are some pretty dreary gags and skits, and some fairly routine songs & dances...
Abovestairs in his elegant Manhattan saloon, the Stork Club, ex-bootlegger Sherman Billingsley moves with exquisite aplomb. He is the Ward McAllister of café society. He dispenses a magnum of champagne to a favorite here, a fleeting, boyish smile to an attractive décolletage there. And he gives mad, mad gifts to the charmed inner circle of his customers...
Radcliffe Dean Mildred P. Sherman admitted "we like you and greatly admire the things you are doing," while Dean of Men Everettt Baker of MIT praised the "high quality" of the Constitution adopted at the group's founding sessions...
...addition to Smith, Robert B. Watson '37, associate dean of the College, Dean Mildred P. Sherman of Radcliffe, and Dean Everett M. Baker of MIT will address the gathering. Representatives of all of the graduate schools of the University are expected to attend...