Word: catch-as-catch-can
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...role that no person shall enter the concert hall during the progress of a given piece of music. The fact that the time and place are such as to cast a general flavor of informality over the organ recitals in Appleton Chapel is no excuse for yesterday's catch-as-catch-can type of entry. There is always at least one usher at these musicals for the purpose of dispensing programs. His duties might well be extended to include the detaining of late comers without the door until the number being played at the time of their arrival...
...public opinion criticised the Methodist tribunals for not having a consistent body of Canon Law to guide their decisions in the varied cases which came before them. Therefore the institution fell into discredit and received the contemptuous nickname of Ku Klux Klan, a corruption of an old wrestling term "Catch-as-catch...
Grand Totals. With seven championships (rugby, shooting, track and field, catch-as-catch-can wrestling, rowing, tennis, swimming) credited in twelve branches of completed competition, the U. S. clinched a victory over the other Nations of the earth for all-round Olympic honors: U. S. 83; Great Britain 33; France 30; Finland 30; Sweden 22½; Norway 20¼; Uruguay 10; Argentina...
...bustle and clatter of energy lavishly expended sets up a sympathetic vibration in every true American heart. Solicitous brains have spun for the busy man to give him a telephone and radio, a motor car and airplane, ready-to-wear clothes, and a meal reduced to seconds in a catch-as-catch-can restaurant...
...paper, my eye stuck on the statement: "The Duke swished the agate into the draperies for the winning count." Is there any need to go on with your campaign for the emancipation of the language, as long as the reporters carry on the fight so gallantly under the existing catch-as-catch-can rules? COL. BYGAD...