Word: bets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brookline High's Harold Moffie looks from his performances of the past week like a sure bet for a starting post in the backfield. Small, but fast and very shifty, Moffie has been tearing off consistent long gains in informal scrimmages. Howard Reed of Andover and John Whitaker of English High have been showing up at tackle slots, as has Shipwreek Kelly at guard...
...bobby-soxers, I think they are cute and I'll bet they wash their underwear...
Political dopesters outside Virginia had bet on flop-eared, wing-collared Representative Howard W. Smith to succeed to the Senate seat of the late Carter Glass. Howard Smith, archfoe of labor unions, was a national figure, openly sought the post and was a member in good standing of Senator Harry F. Byrd's all-powerful state machine...
...King do? If he stood firm on the 10? line, as his colleagues had done in his absence, he would just prolong the trouble. Yet if he agreed to the union's demand, and repudiated his colleagues, he might bring a rift in his own Cabinet. Best bet was that Mr. King, an old friend of labor and a skillful bargainer, would effect a compromise somewhere around 12½?. This might bring the resignations of hold-the-liners like the Prices Board's Donald Gordon. But it might get the men back to work. At week...
...when he recommended his onetime assistant, laconic, cigar-smoking Spencer Drayton, who had helped capture the Nazi saboteurs who landed on Long Island in June, 1942. Drayton has hired practically no one but ex-FBI men as investigators. Their chief trouble so far: baseless "tips" from people who have bet on the wrong horse. Even so, Drayton thinks his job is valuable. Says he: "My presence deters crime...