Word: slenderizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still a relatively new and undeveloped sport. In the men's division, Alex Olmedo, who plays Davis Cup tennis for the U.S. but comes from Peru, which lists but 3,000 tennis players, was the class of the field. And in the women's division, a slender, poker-faced school marm named Maria Bueno brought Brazil its first big international championship...
Their dash made them look more like drunks in a conga line. In the thin air, no one could lurch more than 15 steps without rest. The final 400 ft. were up a near-vertical snow wall; somehow they made it, and there was the slender bamboo pole that had been planted on the summit in 1947 by Bradford Washburn, a mountain-climbing geographer. Three men burst into tears. "Do you realize," gasped Buckingham, "do you realize what we've done? Four hackers-we've made a great ascent, maybe the greatest outside of South America...
...introduced some side-splitting bits with a rapier; and indeed the entire Evans-Caius duel scene is brilliantly staged. Jack Bittner rants vigorously as the Host of the Garter Inn with an excessive penchant for the adjective "bully." Frederic Warriner is aptly idiotic and cringing as the suitor Slender. And nine-year-old Mark Carson acquits himself admirably in his amusing Latin lesson with Evans...
...been employed by the directors with such virtuosity and flexibility. Much humor derives from the outlandish costumes designed by Motley. Mistress Ford wears an outfit of incompatible orange and mauve; and when it is side by side with Mistress Page's fuchsia one, the combination is an awful eyesore. Slender wears a pink doublet, amber hat, and ridiculous flowered chintz trousers...
What moved north from Ottawa was a slender magazine called Inuktitut (The Eskimo Way), a publication so thoroughly Eskimo that even the Department of Northern Affairs cannot fully translate its contents. Its 40 pages were written by Eskimos, illustrated by Eskimos, typed for engraving on a special typewriter with Eskimo characters, the strange shorthand symbols devised by 19th century Anglican missionaries to approximate the language. "Those writings like this," went Inuktitut's introduction, "they have a name: 'The Eskimo Way.' By the Eskimos only have they been written, and by the Eskimos will they generally be read...