Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Think what that means, you 90 per cent of last year's upperclassmen who are still tied to the apron strings of Mother Fortune! It means that the College Graduate, a hitherto highly exploited commodity that used to drug the market a hundred and fifty thousand strong every year, now has ten per cent more bargaining power! Instead of 150,000 young world-changers, all string-pulling, relative-bothering, contact-casting, desperately making appointments to impress 150 personnel managers, the situation will practically be reversed. And why? Because the national emergency has cut you down to 148,500 world-changers...
...There are four different-shaped kangaroos: the Turtle (for distance), the Speeder (for an accurate second shot), the Flash (to get over a high obstacle), the Torpedo (for a stop-dead approach or putt). Players carry their kangaroos in a canvas pouch not unlike a carpenter's apron...
...Freemasons of the U.S. had a right to be puzzled last week over the Nazis' latest "sensational exposure" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Plastered over the Berlin papers, heralded in scare-heads, was a "secret illustrated document" a six-year-old group photograph showing the President wearing the apron of a Freemason...
...Stadium one night last week 25,000 fight fans yelled themselves limp. It was the first round of Washington's first world-championship heavyweight fight, and there, hanging over the ropes head first, was Joe Louis, the champ. The boxer who had dumped him on to the ring apron was 25-year-old Buddy Baer, baby brother of onetime
...years, when two frozen-faced young men came softly in behind her and demanded her keys. They wanted to get in Room No. 1903, across the hall, they whispered. When Mrs. O'Brien asked why, one of the soft-snarling men stuck a revolver against her apron. Mrs. O'Brien put her hand in her apron pocket where she kept her key ring -and a crucifix. She clutched the crucifix and uttered a silent, urgent prayer. Then she swung her fist to the gunman...