Word: chick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy Southworth had done a good job of pulling himself up by his bootstraps. He first took over the Cards in 1929, and Degan by putting his foot in his mouth. The first day he read a highhanded riot act to the club, and Veteran Chick Hafey whispered to tobacco-chewing Jim Bot-tomley, "Don't look now, but there's a hell on the job." Southworth got fired in midseason...
Cheep to Bellow. Nationalism reared its meek head in Java a generation ago. A chick of the first Dutch efforts at native education, its first cheeps in 1908 were a safe & sane Boedi Oetomo (High Endeavor) society, founded by some aristocratic Javanese medical students. A bevy of more determined groups followed it. Within a decade such nationalists as the smooth-faced, smooth-talking Soekarno, a Bandung Technical University engineering graduate, and Mohammed Hatta, who went to Amsterdam University, were getting bold ideas. They had heard of things like Communism, self-determination, revolution. In the '20s their exuberance landed both...
...mystical debate on the virtues of the machine, which underlies the whole picture, is soberly set forth but not very convincing. But much more of the film concerns the comedy of archaic machinery, and that comes off much better (with expert help from James Gleason as an auto salesman, Chick Chandler as a demon fairgrounds aviator, and Fred MacMurray as a grease monkey...
Last week, two of the projected leagues decided to give up. Said Promoter John F. ("Chick") Meehan of the Trans-America Football League : "With the Stadium I had plenty of ammunition. With out it I just had conversation. . . ." Harold ("Red") Grange, quitting the U.S. Professional Football League, said moodily: "I would not advise anybody to start in pro football...
...Roost. In Berkeley, Calif., a Mrs. Chick sold her house to a Mrs. Crane, bought a new one through a realtor named Mrs. Gosling...