Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, scourge of furriners,* picked up another poker and found it hot. Six men convicted of taking part in nocturnal Ku Klux Klan floggings, three of them now on the chain gang, appealed for clemency. Gene's tender heart was touched. He expressed sympathy for "misguided" floggers, admitted that he had once been one himself. Promising a public hearing on the appeal, he reportedly advised attorneys for the floggers to "have some preachers up here to speak for these...
...uncertain link in the chain appears, at the present time, to be in the breaststroke. Ulen is necessarily depending somewhat on last year's Freshmen in every, event, but in no event is he depending on them as much as he is in the breaststroke...
...himself in to the routine of the thing, so Vag had decided on a novel for tonight. Something light and frothy but with a problem. His roommate said he had just the book for him. About Vassar. (Wonderful place, Vag thought. Must get up there and see that Daisy Chain lassie again.) Enough sex so as not to be boring, but serious withal. Just the thing for a flabby mind that was eager to get back into intellectual training...
Last week the Miami (Fla.) Herald (John S. Knight chain) provided its editorial department with brand-new typewriters. So astounding was this innovation that Herald Columnist Jack Bell wrote a whole flabbergasted column on the unprecedented event, completely neglected mention that the Herald had the day before completed a modernization job costing...
Paramount Pictures, declared Joseph Patrick Kennedy, "is a chain of incompetent, unbusinesslike and wasteful practices" for which another receivership seemed inevitable. That was five years ago. Last week Paramount stockholders got their third-quarter report: profits were $3,071,000, highest since 1930 and almost double the $1,726,000 cleared a year ago. More significant, this net was twice that of archrival Loew's Inc. After ten years of tussling, Paramount was again the biggest money-maker in show business...