Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner was the idea uttered than it raced like a hungry cat down Tin Pan Alley, stopped at the door of a prodigious composer named Irving Caesar, creator of such pop tunes as Tea for Two and Is It True What They Say About Dixie? Composer Caesar is no stranger to tax songs. In 1946 he turned out a children's tune called Tommy Tax ("Who pays our smiling Postman/ For toting heavy sacks? Who-oo You-oo/ And little Tommy Tax"), and was eager to write another. In a flash Tunesmith Caesar shipped off to IRS a high...
...sooner was he freed than he resumed his career, took the name of one Dr. Cecil Hamann, studied law at night at Northeastern University in Boston for a year, then joined another Roman Catholic order, the Brothers of Christian Instruction, in Maine. The brothers warmly welcomed such an esteemed professional as "Dr. Hamann." dubbed him Brother John. As Brother John, he met a young doctor named Joseph C. Cyr, helped Cyr treat a member of the brotherhood for rheumatoid arthritis (bee venom, suggested Ferdinand with professional aplomb...
...little prince had no sooner been lodged in President Eisenhower's suite at Walter Reed Army Hospital, where Army doctors diagnosed his affliction-cerebral palsy-and prescribed special footwear and therapy (TIME, Feb. 11), than letters and gifts began pouring in to Blair House. The first grade at Nance School in Clinton, Okla., wrote that they had seen him on television and wished him well. Kindergarten children in a Long Island public school spent the $1 surplus from their cookie fund for a couple of plastic toys, some crayons, a coloring book, lollipops and a jigsaw puzzle, sent them...
...stood back and listened to criticism until I'm tired of it. Up to now I've been very, very careful not to make any criticism of any kind. But you reach a point sometimes-and this was it." Perhaps, she added, if she had reached it sooner she might not have had an ulcer...
...original Information Please panel member, who declined an invitation himself. Much as they now want Van Doren to go on, the producers also foresee a chance that audiences may tire of his winning streak. As the Van Doren family's friend, Clifton Fadiman, puts it: "Sooner or later he's going to stop being a Christian and start being a lion...