Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Dispatch and Sunday Times bloomed with graphic accounts of the Lama's tearful departure. India's newspapers added that he left at the head of a yak caravan, laden with fabulous stores of gold and diamonds. Soberly, the New York Times's careful Robert Trumbull relayed deadpan accounts from the Indian papers...
...Journalist Barbara (the Economist) Ward, the King's physician, U.S. General George C. Marshall ("Inverchapel is a leader among peace-loving people . . .") and General Dwight D. Eisenhower ("I am delighted ... Lord Inverchapel. . . friendly relations . . ."). From London came Author Harold Nicolson to speak for him (candidates themselves never appear). Deadpan and in piping voice, Nicolson began: "Lord Inverchapel is extraordinarily unconventional . . ." Students burst into shouts of "at his age" and "whooooo...
...President . . ." Many readers will disagree with Merry-Go-Round's political judgments and be bored with its unending succession of paste-up biographical sketches. But few will fail to enjoy its deadpan vignettes of Washington life. In one of these, a brief speech by Senator Homer Capehart, the occasional mystery and sadness of representative government are epitomized...
That night, the news broke. Johnson's resignation and the President's deadpan answer were given to the press. The man whom, only a fortnight before, Harry Truman had insisted he would not fire, was fired.* White, choked up, Johnson faced photographers on his way in to one of the last Cabinet meetings that he would attend...
...Notes. In the column, "This England," the magazine regularly passes on to readers with an amused smile such deadpan comments on manners & morals as "The true story of the worst criminal in London's history. An admirably ghoulish play suitable for all the family. From poster for Shepherd's Bush Empire...