Word: winchellian
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Street's Winchellian political terminology, Pierce has been called a New Dealer because of his backing of the 1938 Conway Committee revolt (TIME, Feb. 7, 1938) which purged the Old Guard from Stock Exchange leadership, installed young, earnest Bill McChesney Martin on Sing Sing First Baseman Dick Whitney's throne. But Broker Pierce's merger with an underwriter has little to do with the New Deal, more to do with his notorious optimism. Favorite Pierce dictum: "I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and half-right." But his latest move follows the classic pattern...
Orchids, or some such Winchellian device are certainly due trumpet man Bunny Berigan this week at the Marionette Room of the Hotel Brunswick. The guy was still suffering from an attack of arthritis which had hospitalized him for some time in New York when he played opening night...
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