Word: chews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kiss Me, Kate four weeks ago, he turned up in evening dress and settled himself happily down front in the midst of his large, glittering party. He was the picture of relaxed enjoyment, and a sight to amaze his fellow composers and authors, who generally pace, squirm and chew their nails backstage or in the lobby during a first performance. Playwright Russel Grouse once called Porter's composure at his own first nights as "indecent as the bridegroom who has a good time at his own wedding...
...working model is a low-slung, 25-ft.-long, electric-motored contraption which travels on caterpillar tracks. It has two horizontal rows of rotary steel drills which chew out the coal and sweep it on to a conveyor, which carries it over the tail of the machine into mine cars...
...President Roosevelt thanking Freeman for suggesting the term "liberation" instead of the "invasion" of Europe, and a Helen Hokinson New Yorker cartoon in which a bewildered matron returns two fat volumes to her bookshop, saying: "I guess I bit off more 'Robert E. Lee' than I could chew...
...like her boss, for 13 years. Unlike the memoirs of other members of President Roosevelt's entourage, her diary of those years has no political importance whatever-for the simple reason that Mrs. Nesbitt was much too busy feeding the politicians to bite off more than she could chew herself. Nonetheless, her prattling, naive, lively record will take its place among the source books as an invaluable inside story of the 31st President's domestic life & times...
Quid Pro Quo. In Tacoma, Wash., Pitcher John Tobacco lasted one inning, was relieved by Fred Chew...