Word: meanest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Meanest Man in the World, starring Wally Cox and Josephine Hull, opens a new series...
Purpling at rumors that he plans to sell his St. Louis Cardinals baseball club, Beer (Budweiser) Baron August ("Gussie") Busch foamed: "This is the lousiest, dirtiest, meanest thing that has ever happened to me . . . Damn it, that's the biggest kick I get out of life any more-even when we have a season like this one." With the team in seventh place in the National League, Owner Busch was still aghast to consider his own fate if he were to sell it down the river: "My life wouldn't be worth a plugged nickel in St. Louis...
...Education section of your same issue, which reveals that a sample of 15 U.S. scientists showed two-thirds ignorant of the most elementary history and illiterate in philosophy. It is bad enough that scientists presenting themselves for a Doctorate of Philosophy should be crassly unaware of the meanest elements of our cultural heritage, but it is alarming that these new Piltdown Men . . . should claim the right to unsupervised authority over us all. These people don't need authority. They need a course in elementary logic, a McGuffey's Reader and perhaps a Gideon Bible...
...Alcatraz prison; of a liver infection; in San Francisco. Scholarly Penologist Johnston tamed riotous San Quentin during his 1913-25 tenure, had to abandon "reconstructive" penology when he took over in 1934 as first warden of Alcatraz, which had been deliberately established as a fortress to hold the meanest mobsters in gangdom (Al Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly...
Inhibited and shy, Tony has "a childish and luminous beauty" that makes him a success with adults, but a failure in the uncompromising world of his school fellows. Tony gets playfully slapped around by his roommate and bullied from time to time by Sam Petrie, the meanest boy in school. Tony's frailty of body is matched by poverty of spirit, and he suffers his indignities fuming, but in cowardly silence...