Word: swooning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worse still, they started to swoon. It began at the Paramount when a teen-aged girl, who had stood all night outside the theater and then sat through seven shows without food, quite naturally passed out in her seat. The tabloids screamlined the story. After that they were dropping in the aisles like flies. At the height of the swoon syndrome, Frankie Boy got around 250,000 letters a year...
Warm-Weather Cheers. Chicago's optimists had a hard time believing Slats. The Sox, after all, had an unnerving and persistent failing called a June swoon, a mid-season slump that started them sliding toward the second division. But last week, even the diehards agreed that Marion's cold-weather prediction might pan out. The White Sox took two out of three games from the disintegrating Yanks; they split a four-game series with the Boston Red Sox and at week's end they were scrapping with the Yanks and Indians for the league lead...
Wooden Expression. Most admen agree that the new look in announcers was started by Ed Sullivan of Toast of the Town. Despite his wooden expression and lack of announcer's glibness, Sullivan does the sort of job that makes any sponsor swoon with joy. He spends much of his offscreen time racing around the nation on the dedicated work of selling Lincolns and Mercurys. He addresses regional meetings of auto dealers ("I explain that we're all part of a team'') and will show up in Portland. Ore., for its Rose Festival or Memphis...
...your Feb. 2 issue, I find: "Friends said [Wayne] Morse's swoon probably resulted from treatment to his jaw, broken last year when a horse kicked him." I know a group who would like to know the name of the horse to award same an Oscar "for the supreme exhibition of horse sense...
This week the Senate (77-6) confirmed Wilson as Defense Secretary. The six included Wayne Morse, who made a two-hour speech opposing confirmation, left the Senate floor, fainted as he walked into the reading room, recovered in time to vote. (Friends said Morse's swoon probably resulted from treatment to his jaw, broken last year when a horse kicked...