Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston Democratic politicos are sanguine to greater or lesser degrees today; but they seem to wear an expression of healthy ebulliance as they utter the last familiar gasps of the campaign all over the city. Nobody was in at the Kennedy Headquarters on Tremont Street. "They're all down at the Boston Garden," said the elevator boy, "getting ready for the next President of the United States." And a Ward campaign manager added: "President Kennedy...
...jeered as he stripped off his clothes at their command. When his underwear was gone and he stood naked, the kids grinned, turned and strutted away. Suddenly one of the gang, 14 years old and illiterate, spun round and stalked back. "Here's something for you to wear," he snarled, brutally stabbing the old man twice, and leaving him critically injured. Packs of out-of-control teenagers, out for kicks or cash, are terrorizing Santiago, Chile. The Chileans call them coléricos-angry ones...
...sunny afternoon in Manhattan's Central Park, Denmark's visiting King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid appeared with Danish-born Pianist-Funnyman Victor Borge beside a statue of Denmark's greatest teller of fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen. Borge, wearing half-spectacles "for very short stories.'' read two Andersen tales to some 100 bemused tots. The children could not quite feign indifference to a real King and Queen, and at one point a local lad asked chainsmoking Frederik pointblank: "King, where is your crown? I thought all Kings wore crowns." Affable Frederik explained that...
...reform. Unlike Fiorello!, this yarn of a clergyman of the '90s crusading against Manhattan's vast red-light district and colliding with its venal police force proves pretty heavy going. The high-principled minister is no such fighting gamecock as La Guardia, and Maurice Evans makes musicomedy wear a stiff collar where Tom Bosley fit the Little Flower like a glove...
...GARMENT INDUSTRY, women's wear manufacturers and David Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union agreed on the establishment of a $10 million fund to provide severance pay to garment workers whose employers go out of business. The plan, which will be paid for by the employers, will ensure 450,000 garment workers weekly payments of from $12.50 to $25 for as long as 48 weeks if they are unemployed as a result of business failures. Industry leaders hailed the step as a stabilizing influence: in the past, when an employer was forced to close...