Word: solon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cult has developed, the martini has suffered abominations that would have doomed a lesser drink. Johnny Solon, an unlamented mixologist at the old Waldorf bar, diluted the basic gin and vermouth with orange juice and called it a Bronx-a cheerless drink now well on its way to oblivion. Others have polluted the martini with grenadine, mint sprigs, anchovies, crystallized violets, sherry, absinthe, and even Chanel No. 5. They are still at it: last week Washingtonians were drinking something called a "dillytini"-a martini with a two-inch green bean, pickled in dill vinegar-which tastes, according to one experimenter...
...sure: South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, hero of the Dixiecrat uprising in the Democratic Party in 1948, suggested that they march in a body down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House to see Eisenhower and tell him they would not back down; his stalemate Olin ("the Solon") Johnston had a 40-hour speech ready for one of the biggest filibusters of all time. Calmly Russell argued Thurmond out of his proposal. He told Olin the Solon to keep his speech handy, just in case. Then Virginia's Harry Byrd summed up the sense of the meeting. "Dick...
Heading the invasion were the Big Three leaders of Social Credit: Solon Earl Low, 57, of Peace River. Alta.. leader of the party's 15 M.P.s (all from Alberta or British Columbia) in the last House of Commons...
...fact of Norman's past Communist connections emerged in the debate. Social Credit Leader Solon Low turned fiercely to Pearson. "The government has failed dismally right from 1951 to get this thing cleared away," he cried. "If Mr. Norman was hounded to death . . . this government and the officials of the Department of External Affairs must bear a large part of the blame...
Robert J. R. Ellrich 4G, teaching fellow in General Education, will study at the University of Lyon, Solon Beinfield 2G, will study at the University of Paris, and Leon D. Bramson 3G will study at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands...