Word: skimpier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Living. The real upsurge began after World War II, when food prices began to soar, and housewives grew cautious about overbuying. The leftovers got skimpier, were hoarded in the freezer instead of fed to pets. It was also a lot easier and cheaper to open a box or can of dog food. (Dog-food prices have fallen 12% since 1953, although people-food prices have risen 8%.) Into the open market jumped hundreds of small new companies, such as Los Angeles' Dr. Ross Dog & Cat Food Co., begun by D. B. Lewis, 53, a Tennessean who parlayed...
...hair was skimpier, the waist thicker, but Comic Bob Hope, onstage at the St. Louis Municipal Opera in the Broadway role he created 25 years ago, seemed the same slat-nosed, perpetual lad with the innocent leer. Playing Huckleberry Haines, the matchmaking student bandleader of Alpha Beta Pi, in the Jerome Kern-Otto Harbach musical Roberta, Gagman Hope (aided by his writers) stuck to the creaky plot, but inserted his old vaudeville number Invitation to the Dance, convulsed the audience with typical, topical Hopela: "The President is getting off better drives -he has Sherman Adams' picture on the ball...
...country is settling back into a chilling swamp of unsolved problems. Nasser finds himself in need of pulling something out of his hat-something as spectacular as his Communist arms deal or his seizure of the canal company. But the rabbits left in his hat, if any, are skimpier. What can he do now to stir the popular imagination that does not risk disastrous consequences...
...blue, entertainment spots crowd in around the city limits. Most famous, or notorious, is The Meadows, on Route Nine, just a short distance and a long bankroll away. Dancing and drinking are featured between shows. The Maridor, down the road a piece, is gentler on purses and skimpier on entertainment...