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Postgraduate Quiz. Meanwhile, Sponsor Revlon was not deaf to the call of duty. If one quiz show was a smash hit, why not two? The producer, Louis G. Cowan, Inc., came up with a new idea called Panelopoly (a portmanteau word combining panel and monopoly), which would feature a panel of four amateur experts who would answer questions on their specialties. Adman Norman Norman sees Panelopoly as a sort of postgraduate course for contestants who have tried for the top money on The $64,000 Question. Explains Norman: "I got to thinking along this line when I realized that...
Carroll) fostered the fad of the portmanteau word (samples: chortle, combining chuckle and snort; galumph, to gallop triumphantly). But by & large, students have always been the real wordmakers. Sometimes, indeed, their words have become English. Among them: blazer, sophomore and constitutional-originally a bookworm's form of exercise...
...expanded crop insurance, authorized increased spending for public power systems, restored the Commodity Credit Corp.'s authority to build grain storage bins and (with G.O.P. support, notably from Ohio's Taft) passed a slum-clearance and public-housing bill. In the closing minutes, the 81st enacted a portmanteau farm compromise put over by former Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson, and designed to redeem Harry Truman's vague and grandiose promises to the farmers...
Well, "slithy" means "litho and slimy." . . . You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word. --Through the Looking Glass...
Saratoga Trunk (Warner) has been packed by expert hands with practically everything a film needs for a triumphant box-office tour. In the top drawer of this expensive portmanteau, Ingrid Bergman is wonderfully bewitching in a black wig and bustle, and Gary Cooper drawls and sprawls in his best skin-tight cow-pants. Edna Ferber's plot slides them expertly through a period-piece romance without missing one of the primary Hollywood emotions...