Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beautiful in any sense. When Sergeant Pullen tried to put his feeling for his tank into words, he would say with passion that he would feel like beating in the face of anybody who tried to take his tank. He alone knew precisely the right touch for the starter button on that particular engine, the feel of those particular gears, the tension of the tracks and bogie wheels (which keep the tank treads in line). Since his post, as tank commander, was in the turret and not at the steering levers when the tank was running, he had to impart...
...problem before the Court was jurisdictional labor strikes, used by unions chiefly as a means of keeping monopolistic controls. The problem was posed in the Carpenters' case, where the A. F. of L. Carpenters union, controlled by hulking, button-eyed "Big Bill" Hutcheson, struck against the St. Louis brewers, Anheuser-Busch, Inc., in an attempt to force the company to turn over to the carpenters the millwright work already being done under A. F. of L. contract by the Machinists union...
...Chaney Jr. as Canadian cowboys and Walter Hampden as an Indian chief. Amongst the funniest strips of celluloid in this year's output is the strip-tease duel between Overman's Scotch Indian and Tamiroff as his halfbreed expartner who shoots not for the heart but for the suspender button...
...Best vocalists: Bing Crosby, Helen O'Connell. Blonde, dimpled Singer O'Connell, 20, called "Button-Nose" by the boys in Jimmy Dorsey's band, also took first place in polls held by Metronome, Orches tra World, Swing. She has never studied singing, learns songs and perfects her whiskey-voiced style while lying...
Last week U. S. football fans were ready to admit that Rockne was right. Taking over a feeble Stanford team that had failed to win a Pacific Coast Conference game last year, Coach Shaughnessy and his T formation (a sort of button-button -who's -got -the -button offensive ) transformed the wooden Indians into the most formidable team on the Coast...