Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exit Afoot. In Ogden, Utah, City Commissioner William D. Wood rode happily into a rodeo arena to acknowledge his selection as rodeo foreman, was promptly thrown by his horse...
...latter, might I suggest the Colonel withhold further reports until he has studied more than a mere 22 Army men (who probably did not want to join the Army anyway) and try next to include some Navy men, and certainly a Marine or two, whom no one afoot would dare accuse of being "Papa's boys...
Woodcock might well be the exception to a long line of glass-chinned British heavyweights, but shrewd Tom Hurit, his manager, knew that the 24-year-old slugger was still awkward afoot and short on ring savvy. Woodcock needed two years of seasoning before he could even think of stepping into a ring with a Billy Conn or a Joe Louis. Step One was to put him on a full-time fighting basis. Until now, the pride of Yorkshire had worked all day in a Doncaster railroad shop, trained nightly in a hayloft. Since there is no one left...
...they are cleaning up on John van Druten's I Remember Mama; under the title of Williamson Music Inc. (both their fathers were named William), they are highly successful music publishers; Hollywood is excited over the forthcoming cinemusical they have made of State Fair; and they have plans afoot for another Broadway show...
...public is an overworked but still excellent plot which first exposes the plan of one member of a connubial team for extinction of the other, and then proceeds to weave an intricate net of suspicion and terror surrounding the discovery by the victim of the evil plans afoot. This idea although interesting and teeming with suspense has already been used in "Suspicion," "Angel Street," and "Dark Waters," and becomes tedious in time...