Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Adams' column, "The Conning Tower," provided a varied diet of puns, epigrams, wry humor, and observations on man's minor imperfections and the minutiae of life. His sharp eye surveyed the theater: Helen Hayes, he observed, after seeing her coy performance in Caesar and Cleopatra, suffered from "fallen archness." He rewrote razor-blade ads ("Ask the man who hones one"), and punctured politicians ("When candidates appeal to 'Every-intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them"). He drafted fond couplets to his young sons...
Adams crusaded against illegible house numbers, hatcheck girls, paper towels, his wife's salad dressing, and dry-sweeping with a broom (he felt that the dust raised was dangerously germy). "Whom are you?" demanded "The Conning Tower" testily of any author caught misusing the pronoun...
...vogues pass. Information Please, so successful on radio, died painfully in the new medium of TV. In a less leisurely age, "The Conning Tower," which had come to rest on the New York Post after tenures on the old New York World and the Herald Tribune, spoke to indifferent ears; in 1941 it ended for good...
...about his cabinet full of novices in their 30s. Old politicos also resented his Eastern-style narrow-brim hat, his frequent out-of-state junkets, his preference for Scotch and soda over bourbon and branch water, his preference for Oklahoma City's Golf and Country Club and plush Tower Club over such spots of legislative camaraderie as the Capri Motel...
Lunar Probe. In Northfield, N.J., Eileen Bengal, 2½, climbed to the top of a 50-ft. television tower next to her home, when rescued beamed: "I was trying to go to the moon...