Word: strummer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patent No. 2,850,023, Idaho's one-term (1944-50) Democratic Senator Glen H. Taylor, was in Manhattan at the headquarters of the business based on his invention-a no-itch, nonskid toupee. As president of Taylor Topper, toupee-topped Taylor, a veteran campaign guitar strummer and vice-presidential candidate of the pink-tinged Progressive Party in 1948, features before-and-after pictures of his own pate in his advertising, is now trying to set up Taylor Topper franchises across the U.S. Last week he allowed: "I'm not doing a land-office business-but it takes...
...Moss has thought up a few nice epigrams ("Drosophila are so Mendelian"; "Promiscuity is the thief of time"), and various pleasant conceits. But he has also been fecund in pseudo-epigrams ("A doctor without a disease is like a poet without a passion--a mere strummer"), and little tepid fancies (an inefficient, effeminate angel who receives celestial rebukes from the sound-effects man whenever he says, "Oh, God.") Mr. Moss writes in a tone of unflagging, unconvincing elegance, less Wilde than woolly...