Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since June 1941, when he was appointed chairman of a Parliamentary committee to survey existing schemes of social insurance and allied services, he has put his ideas in a 100,000-word document, which last week was ready to be sprung on England. If preliminary forecasts were correct, it bid fair to be a memorable document...
...tailor shop cut material for Red Cross sewing units. Soon the convicts will begin to reclaim rubber-covered copper wire salvaged and brought back from Pearl Harbor. In a million-dollar, convict-built factory, 1,000 skiff-type commando assault boats will be made if San Quentin's bid is accepted...
...outnumbered those of the Axis, but only part of them were able to take the road to Tunis. And there was a possibility that one of the great air battles of the war would develop if Hitler gambled 1,000 or more of his best flyers in a desperate bid to keep a toe hold on North Africa...
Manhattan's Theater Guild began its 25th season last week with two new Broadway productions. They revealed that, at 25, the Guild is past its prime. Neither Ketti Frings's Mr. Sycamore nor Philip Barry's Without Love would probably have rated a bid to the exciting birthday parties of the Guild's youth, when whimsey and small talk were freezingly snubbed...
...these are all babes in the woods compared to the picture's star, Sonia Henie, Hollywood's biggest bid for mercy killing. Within the course of an evening, Miss Henie stands up her date, necks with a Marine she's picked up, convinces her family she's engaged to him, scares the daylights out of the poor fellow, kicks Holloway in the face--what did you expect? --lies to the preacher, then tells her family she's married, then tells them she was only kidding, and so on--far into the night...