Word: yore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comments ranged from "Excelsior!" to "Pshaw." One high-ranking Administration flunkey said only, "Plunk yore magic twanger, Froggie...
After co-starring in a TV drama, two cinemoppets of yore, Jackie Coogan, 43, and Margaret O'Brien, 21, hearti'y agreed that a child actor's life can be just jolly and not a bit traumatic. Coogan's daughter Leslie Diane, 4, will soon portray Jackie as a kid in a screen biography...
...days of yore when Indians padded about the local forest, Harvard men tended to stick together. Although hostility of the Indian sort no longer abounds, Harvard tends to look only within its own confines when looking for new professors and thus neglects the talent available at other universities...
...days of yore, when sacred cows were sizzled on their sticks, are gone and dead. The Lampoon hesitates between offensive iconoclasm and dull despair. If the reader is burdened with the journal's sadism, think of the staff which produces it. as the poet observed upon emerging from the Game Cock one November evening in the 18th century...
...this show, to be sure, there are the required number of stately showgirls with whole gardens in their hair, the remembered number of semi-nudes descending the staircase. And as of yore, the flesh is willing; but the spirit is weak. The spirit, in fact, has just about vanished. The songs have no lilt, the lyrics no verve, the sketches no crackle. The dancing has its bits of color and movement, but never the slightest distinction. In such feckless fandangos, the better performers-Billy De Wolfe, Harold Lang and Helen Wood-are largely wasted, while most other performers only make...