Word: agented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What's Left? In Paris the traditional agent de police sketched by Bemelmans as a square-topped pyramid balanced on twin sticks, still stalked the streets in his cap and dark blue cape. The portly headwaiter too, who greeted both Barbara Hutton and Marshal von Brauchitsch with the same bow, had weathered the storm without a ruffle. Georges, the pander of the prewar underworld, had actually improved his status; he was now a respectable black-marketeer...
...office, he has been a leader in local politics since the war, serving as Chairman of Boston's Citizens' and Labor Committee to Save OPA in 1946, and leading the Boston Tenant's Council to keep rent control, prevent evictions, and create new housing. He also served as Port Agent for the American Communications Association (CIO) for three years, gaining considerable labor support from that post...
Bartley Crum, publisher of the New York Star, produced an even more striking theory: he seemed to be saying that Bernadotte himself was an agent provocateur and had deliberately exposed himself to assassination. Crum declared that when Bernadotte set out on the inspection tour during which he was shot, he "had taken a devious, roundabout route which led him, for no reason whatever, directly through the Stern gang stronghold." (Actually, the Sternists did not control any one part of Jerusalem; their known headquarters were nowhere along Bernadotte's route...
...initial investment ($40,000) promises many a dividend. Crowed a press-agent last week: "There are nearly 2,000 colleges in the country, and most of 'em don't even know yet they can get Margaret Shakesp- godammit, I keep calling her Shakespeare...
...happens to be Mrs. Fraser (Louise Allbritton) and an old flame at that. This not improbable situation gets out of hand when the wife (Madeleine Carroll) plans to test her spouse's jealousy. She hires an actor to flirt with her at a nightclub; the actor's agent tips off the husband in advance; an unsuspecting tobacco tycoon (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) sits at the wrong table...