Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the door shut behind the family group, someone asked Elizabeth to comment on the bold protestations of Eddie Fisher. "Please," she said, "do not spoil my Christmas...
...believes in suppressin' nawthin' but ivi-dence." A favorite Dooley target was John D. Rockefeller: "He looks afther his own money an' th' money iv other people. He takes it and puts it where it won' hurt thim an' they won't spoil it. He's a kind iv society f r th' previntion iv croolty to money." Mr. Dooley deplored the jingoism of the Spanish-American War: "Whin we plant what Hogan calls th' starry banner iv freedom in th' Philippines an' give th' sacred blessin...
...looking forward to this fight," said Sir Alec Douglas-Home last week. "I'm almost spoiling for it." He did not have long to spoil. Next day, as Parlia ment reassembled, shouting, leaping Tory backbenchers cheered lustily while the newly elected member for Kinross took his oath as an M.P. and moved into his place for the first time on the government's front bench. Pulling out a small red and gold ballpoint pen, Douglas-Home hunched down in his seat and scribbled furiously on slips of paper for the next 42 minutes while Labor Party Leader Harold...
...house as a hostage for the life of "the Bel-fast martyr." The soldier falls in love with a maid and makes friends with the other occupants, but when he begs them to help him escape, they refuse. There is a surprise ending, which we won't spoil...
...such-a-crazy-tractor romance in which Jimmy Stewart fell in love with a $3,000,000 airplane and took off for Cloud Nine. Now Hollywood has, in effect, remade the movie with glittering new hardware (B-52s instead of B-47s) and a dull old theme: "Will SACcess spoil Rock Hudson?" Rock is an Air Force colonel assigned to command a SAC Wing that has just flunked its Operational Readiness Inspection. His job is to make the Wing straighten up and fly right, and he works brutally hard at the job - with the in evitable domestic complications. His wife...