Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picked up what jobs she could, such as designing leatherwork and making artificial flowers in a sweatshop. In October 1874, she read a newspaper account of séances held by the Eddy brothers in Vermont. Spiritualist Blavatsky promptly descended on the Eddys in a scarlet shirt and a whirl of exotic spirit controls...
Allowing for a changed viewpoint since her pre-war days in Cambridge, Cynthia Brott observed that really, the Radcliffe girl hasn't changed very much. "Still the same interest in men--sparked considerably by the 'joint instruction' programme--the same indulgence in the social whirl, and the same maturing process as the old days." With Cambridge looking "worse than basic training with the millions of men," the Radcliffe interest in the opposite sex and consequent social whirl is understandable. The "maturing process," however, is a singular something Miss Brott, a biochemistry major, didn't work up in the laboratory...
...Gags. Phase 1 was a six-month whirl through the circulation and advertising departments of his father's Sun. Husky, willing Field IV started on a delivery truck, learned about street sales, home sales, customer complaints against carrier boys, sat around drinking with the drivers after work. Using another name (in Chicago, salesmen are not named Marshall Field except as a gag), he sold classified ads over the telephone. Then he took a fast fling at promotion copy and a quick look at the local, national and amusement advertising departments...
Sinatra turned the song down because its wide-ranged wails were too awkward to sing. Bandleaders and record companies were similarly shy. Then a Chicago crooner named Eddie Howard gave it a whirl. Within a month To Each His Own climbed to first place in the popular-song polls. Last week it was firmly established as the No. 1 song hit of the season...
Last week Hearst's King Features Syndicate bought a Cassini society column, but it was not Igor's. The author: pretty, pouty Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini, Igor's 26-year-old wife. The title: Washington Whirl, to run thrice weekly in 100-odd papers, as a hodgepodge of capital chitchat, politics and favorite embassy recipes...