Word: skips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, Taft said a little wearily: "Frankly, I wish we could skip this next week and go right into the convention...
Elizabeth Smart, of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, digressed from denouncing beer to complain that she had seen some mighty low-cut necklines ("They dropped almost off the shoulder") and to disapprove of Groucho Marx's pretending to misunderstand a lady who said she was a skip-tracer.* Quipped Groucho: "You're a stripteaser? That's fine. I'm tired of this namby-pamby stuff...
...voiced reading clerk of the U.S. Senate for 40 years (until he retired in 1947); in Washington, D.C. Onetime Iowa farm boy and stock-company actor, big, rawboned "Uncle John" was said to be able to read faster than any man in decades of Senate history. Knowing when to skip or when to pause during controversial parts of a bill so that a Senator could break in, Crockett could riffle through bills at the rate of 60 pages in 20 minutes (his record: 300 bills in less than two hours). To keep his voice in condition, he ate no meat...
...airport in Formosa, Barkeley is met by his interpreter, a seductive half-caste named Rita Lo-yang. Without hesitation, the agent makes a heavy play for Rita; though for all he knows her father is Mao Tsetung. Rita, however, takes no advantage of his importunity; she refuses to skip a meeting of the General Staff to have dinner with...
Aggressive Al Sawyer has moved up to join Ron Huebsch and Pete Brooke on the first unit, and Hank Wood has been promoted to the second trio, where he'll play with sophomores Phil Waring and Todd Goodwin, Chuck Edwards, Skip Baldwin, and Jim Telfer are the third midfield...