Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cicco and the Plaza Hotel's Colonel Serge Obolensky); a few good feuds, a generous salting of his copy with such phrases-some of them borrowed from other chefs-as snobility, cafelegant, upperclawss, Longuyland, the Rarefied Set. He also leased an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side (Maury Paul said a good address made all the difference). And one thing more: "I think it is very important," he said, "not to develop a pot belly...
...week. After that, silence. No names were given, either of marauders or victims. In the U.S., the leftist press suspected that rightist elements were fighting land reform. In other areas of opinion it was suspected that Communists were fighting the Small Holders Party (small landholders) which currently has the upper hand among the five parties supporting the Miklos Government...
Like Hollywood's everlasting Hardy family, One Man's Family (the Barbours) is an imaginary upper-middle-class family full of common traits, to which all kinds of uncommon things happen. Morse says he got the idea for One Man's Family from reading Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga. Family is as prettied-up a picture of American life as the neat colonial homes in the ads. A Pocatello, Idaho judge has described the program as "the pillar of the American way of life." It has been a pillar to Carlton Morse too, bringing him more than...
Pause That Refreshes. In Spokane, Police Captain Lee Markwood and Sergeant Dan Mangan laughed as they watched a driver wriggle out of a parking space in front of the police station, stiffened their upper lips as the car's owner appeared just too late to stop the thief from driving away...
C.I.S.'s boss, said the announcement, will be young (39), smart, Nova Scotia-born Geoffrey C. Andrew, W.I.B.'s secretary. Son of an Anglican clergyman, he played ice hockey at Oxford, then taught at Upper Canada College in Toronto. His job: to distribute abroad ''information concerning Canada [because] those with whom we trade must know our . . . possibilities...