Word: tuxedo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playing Minnesota Fats in a movie called The Player, currently being shot in Baton Rouge, La. Too well known for hustling, Fats now plays exhibition games-with no frills. After watching dinner-jacketed players at a New York tournament, he once observed that "dressing a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped cream...
...mother, cousin, aunts and uncles were all outside now. Sid Lotenberg, in shiny tuxedo, and my mother, in a long dress, danced around the pool. He sang an old Rodgers and Hart song, "Isn't it Romantic?," as they performed what seemed a fine imitatation of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers...
...were given their first taste of the footlights, the heady liquor of performing for an audience. The three winners in the boys' division that year were dressed as an Indian, a cowboy, and the last wore a minutely detailed copy of a Special Forces uniform. A sweating man in tuxedo lined the three up in front of a battery of Chamber of Commerce and news photographers, whereupon the contestants blinked mutely like pole-axed calves as the flashbulbs burst and the shutters began snapping like a den of rattlers...
...escaped fairly intact, minus a few shades and windows. One punchee was less fortunate as his hosts and friends tore his tuxedo off. Another punchee dropped his trousers and urinated on the seats...
Controversial Past. Thus when Faubus accused Bumpers of being "a country clubber, a tuxedo boy, a highball-to-highball type," the image did not seem remotely apt. Charleston does not even have a country club. Faubus also tried to raise doubts about whether Bumpers believed in God. In what became known as "the Red Sea controversy," Faubus said that Bumpers had once told his Sunday school classes that some biblical scholars questioned whether God had actually parted the waters of the Red Sea. This gave Bumpers a perfect opportunity to affirm his faith for the sake of the fundamentalists...