Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norman G. Levinsky, Boston Latin; Robert F. Lundin, Medford High School' Frederick W. Marx, Jr. Phillips Academy, Exeter; Thomas F. O'Dea, Amesbury High School; Charles I. Shade, Central High School, Memphis; Arthur Sicular '49, Bronx High School of Science, New York; Robert H. Stahl, Brooklyn Central High School; Simon Stopek, Eastside High School, Patterson, New Jersey; Harold Zirin, Bassick High School, Bridgeport, Connecticut...
...first newspaper in America came out in Boston Sept. 25, 1690, and was slapped down the same day. It was banned by Governor Simon Bradstreet for want of a license, and for an unseemly leer at Louis XIV of France ("If reports be true," gossiped Editor Ben Harris, "[he] used to sleep with the Sons Wife...
...best black tailcoat (now a little tight) and his striped pants (ever so slightly frayed at the cuffs). Outside, in the courtyard of the Italian Embassy, he patted his top hat, caressed his iron-grey mustache, and glanced at the clouded sky. To Paris Cop PauL Simon, on guard by the gate, Soragna remarked: "Some rain coming, I think," and after a pause, "I have a disagreeable task this morning." Cop Simon merely nodded cheerfully...
Back at the Embassy gate, Cop Simon had found his tongue. As Soragna stepped out Simon observed cheerfully, "The sun has come out, monsieur." The Italian nodded. He was heading back to Rome, where Italians were working themselves into spasms of grief over the treaty he had just signed. "The fatherland is in mourning," said black-bordered newspapers in Rome...
...Medellinenses: "In a generation we will have skimmed the cream of economic opportunities in Colombia. After that we will recreate the Gran Colombia (Simon Bolivar's old dream of a united Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador), which the stupid Bogotanos have tried patching together again with flowery speeches and poetry, but which can be sutured only with trade and industry. And then undoubtedly we will draw in Peru, before inquiring into possibilities further south. Half a continent will not be too much elbow room for us." Argentines might be annoyed to know it, but Medellinenses do not take too seriously...