Word: swivels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever his chief target may have been, Generalissimo Joseph Stalin's peace talk, like a swivel-mounted machine gun, raked world affairs from a variety of interesting angles last week. The talk consisted of answers to nine apparently prearranged questions by London Sunday Times Russophile Correspondent Alexander Werth...
There was, for example, the short, happy life of Tom ("Shorty") McWilliams at Mississippi State. For one dazzling season in 1944, Freshman McWilliams, a swivel-hipped halfback, looked like the best up-&-coming player in Southeastern Conference history. No one was surprised when Shorty showed up on West Point's unbeatable 1945 team. There were plenty more like him; they turned up three deep at both West Point and Annapolis...
...into Lana Turners. As for the male prototype: "a very large head, one eye, an ear bent permanently to receive a telephone call, one hand with only a thumb and forefinger so it can sign checks and documents, no legs, and a very large bottom to sit in a swivel chair...
Thomas from his presidential swivel chair. Thomas had the support of U.A.W.'s Communists (not that they loved Thomas so much as that they hated Reuther more), of Secretary-Treasurer George Addes, of everyone else who disliked or feared bumptious, ambitious Walter Reuther...
Frank Sinatra prepared a seat for himself on the swivel-chair side of the entertainment business. Incorporated in California: a million-dollar sports-&-spectacles arena (still on paper). Mr. Big: Sinatra...