Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Burns announced that he would debut next month at the Seattle World's Fair with a new double act. His partner: Comedienne Carol Charming, 41 ,the overgrown (5 ft. 9 in.) pixy who was diamond-digging Lorelei Lee in Broadway's long-running Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
...atmosphere was neither to nor expectant as the program needed as usual at the afternoon Alumni Association meeting: the national Anthem, the Alumni President talk, an address by the Governor, two scheduled addresses, and the Psalm. Then Republican Governor Robert F. Bradford of Massachusetts rose and announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen--the Secretary of State." an appreciative ovation, Marshall stepped to the rostrum...
...privy to top-level U.S. atomic information as wartime First Secretary in Britain's Washington embassy, later headed the American desk in the Foreign Office. To one casual acquaintance, Maclean's allegiance to Communism "stuck out a mile." Yet, though they might be "eccentric," both were "gentlemen." Today, there are still many in Britain who scream "McCarthyism" at the suggestion that scientists or civil servants should be more closely screened. This month, in the wake of two other flagrant espionage cases, a government committee investigating security procedures recommended drastic reforms. Its findings stirred angry protests against what...
...warm weather fashions have, alas, come pretty close to full circle. Back around the turn of the century, when there was no such thing as warm weather fashions, gentlemen wore their winter suits in summer--and were both correct and terrifically uncomfortable. Then, in the great relaxation of the twenties, correctness and heavy clothing were sacrificed to comfort. By the beginning of the thirties, a man could be unashamedly comfortable and woefully dishevelled in a baggy seersucker suit...
...Gentlemen," brffsks the general, "we are sending a man around the moon-this week! I'm asking for volunteers." The astronaughts turn pale, drop their eyes, examine their nails, twiddle their fingers, fiddle with buttons, brush their sleeves, blow their noses. All at once an astro-chimp, who happens to be standing by, grabs a fork and playfully jabs one of these reluctant Shepards of kingdom come (Tom Tryon) in the behind. "Yeeee-ooww!" he squalls. "That's our man!" the general bawls...