Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which was about to be demolished. There was Boxing Announcer Joe Humphreys, bellowing at the crowd with a genuine sob in his voice, delivering an ode to the Garden and the gilded copper nude that stood atop it: "Farewell to thee, O Temple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana...
...York Life Insurance Co. decided to build a skyscraper on the site. As the last boxing event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
...Your article concerning senility [Aug. 4] describes the sufferers as "illogical," "subject to mental depressions," bothered by weakened memories, "sloppy." "inattentive to details once cared about," "insensitive to the feelings of others and oversensitive to their own," "previously belligerent" but currently "pathetically sweet and placid," and "at times . . . completely cut off from reality." You have identified the malady afflicting those in contemporary "hippiedom." They are suffering from senility...
Hipper than the Hawaiian tradition of tinkling ukuleles, Ho has chucked the cloying Sweet Leilani, and only under audience pressure retreats to the Hawaiian Wedding Song. His beat ranges from big to bongo...
...Goulet as leading man; and The Madwoman of Chaillot, by the same team (Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence, Composer Jerry Herman) that converted Maine. And now, reversing the old pattern, Broadway is borrowing from Hollywood: onstage, the movie The World of Henry Orient will be known as Henry, Sweet Henry; Don Ameche is playing Peter Sellers...