Word: tite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works with few props-a top hat and a straw hat, a cane and an umbrella-but his simplest movements are vibrant with innuendo. Singing entirely in French, he baited his audiences last week into a wonderful medley of moods. In Ma Môme, Ma P'tite Môme he was every woman's protective lover, as his shoulder and arms curved in a possessive embrace; in the upbeat La Marie-Vison, about the perils of coveting a mink coat ("There must be other ways for a girl to keep warm"), he expressed the wisdom...
Sargent resolved to put the English Channel between himself and his detractors. He took an ornate studio on London's Tite Street, later installed his wid owed mother and unmarried sister in a flat around the corner. To be "done by Sargent" became the posh thing; celebrities flocked to his studio. But instead of immortalizing, he rather paralyzed most of them, turning them into clotheshorses, handsome or beautiful as the case might be. having elegant gestures and bored, sleepy expressions...
...felt that asking for a scholarship for two boys was an imposition. (Tite had decided he wanted to join McGovern at the school) I said I would be glad to raise money for the Cheshire Fund. This was in May, 1953 and I never saw or heard of the Ivy League Agreement until March, 1954, in the Yale Alumni Magazine. The fact remains that there was always a scholarship for Terry from Cheshire funds and my solicitation for the Cheshire scholarship fund was done strictly to help his friend, Ralph Tite...
After Ralph Tite confirmed his mother's understanding, Harvard "then made a formal protest to Arthur Howe (director of admissions at Yale), asking him to review the case for both Ralph Tite and Terry McGovern as violations of the Ivy League Presidents' Agreement. Mr. Howe conscientiously investigated the case...
...answered by Eligibility Committee when it met was whether or not McGovern's year at Cheshire was subsidized by an outside group. Theoretically, he had received a scholarship from Cheshire, and Anderson and his friends had only contributed to the school's scholarship fund, or perhaps to send Ralph Tite to the school with McGovern...